Toy Cart : translation of Mricchakaṭika in ten acts composed in 1st & 2nd century King Shudraka, supposed to be the oldest extant Sanskrit drama. (See Vasantasena)
... Nevertheless the higher & intellectual element seems to have prevailed; those who arrogated freedom in their sexual relations but were not prostitutes, are admirably portrayed in Vasuntsena of the Toy Cart, a beautiful melodrama drawn straight from the life; like her they often exchanged, with the consent of their lover's family, the unveiled face of the Hetaira for the seclusion of the wife. This class ...
... y of contact between that earlier oriental and this later occidental work,—the dramas of Kalidasa and some of the dramatic romances of Shakespeare, plays like the Sanskrit Seal of Rakshasa and Toy-Cart and Elizabethan historic and melodramatic pieces, the poetry of the Cloud-Messenger and erotic Elizabethan poetry, the romantically vivid and descriptive narrative method of Spenser's Faerie Queene ...
... around in contemporary rural India to be convinced of the co-existence of the two kinds. Secondly, to counterbalance the testimony of the toy-carts we have the wheel-like signs with spokes in the script. If they have validity, we can aver that in the making of toy-carts the solid wheel was found preferable and therefore used: its use is merely a convenience and cannot argue against the co-existence of... ignorance of the horse or an alternative fleet-footed animal, the nearest the Indus people came to a chariot was a bullock-cart. It was, perhaps, due to this drawback that they were so effectively vanquished by the comparatively more martial Aryans. Though implements, artifacts, models and toys have been found in profuse abundance, the spoked-wheel and the horse-drawn chariot are conspicuously missing. Yet... invaders and not the Harappāns who thought in terms of the spoked wheel. Why does he hold this view? "There is no evidence," he pleads, "for the spoked wheel at Harappā or Mohenjo-dāro, where all the toy-carts so far found have solid wheels." But about this fact there are two points to be made. First, the use of solid wheels does not necessarily preclude that of spoked ones. The Rigvedic chariot is ...
... God 46 Three-headedness in the Rigveda 46 The discovery of "fire-altars" at Harappān sites 46-47 6. Only solid wheels in Harappān toy-carts 48 Spoked circles on stamp-seals, weapons and potsherds 48-49 The circle an ancient sun-symbol but without inner spokes 49 Spoked circles ...
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