The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.246

c2.s5.246

The ease with which the chariot is overturned indicates again its small size, for it falls over ‘like a clod’ when the driver’s hand is loosed (vi. 48. 18); and its fragility is shown by the ease with which it is splintered (*cakaṭīkṛta*) and the knight decarred (*virathīkṛta*); while another indication of size may be gleaned perhaps from the poetical statement that ‘the wheels sank up to the hubs in blood.’*