Vedic Mythology c7.s7.19

c7.s7.19

The wheel is in various ritual performances employed as a symbol of the sun, as representing both its shape and its motion. It is thus used in the Vājapeya sacrifice¹⁷, in the ceremony of laying the sacrificial fire, and at the solstitial festival¹⁸. In post-Vedic mythology, moreover, one of the weapons of Viṣṇu is a wheel (*cakra*)¹⁹.