Ratha
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Krishna, [[Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th- to 19th-century painting.]] Ratha (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hrátʰas, Vedic Sanskrit: रथ, ; Avestan: raθa) is the Indo-Iranian term for a spoked-wheel chariot. The term has been used since antiquity for both fast chariots and other wheeled vehicles pulled by animals or humans, in particular the large temple cars or processional carts still used in Indian religious processions to carry images of a deity.
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- Harappan Civilisation
- Indo-Aryans
- Proto-Indo-Iranians
- Textual evidence
- Remains
- In Hindu temple festivals
- Rathas buildings
- Rathas in architecture
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
thumb|300px|Krishna, [[Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th- to 19th-century painting.]] Ratha (Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hrátʰas, Vedic Sanskrit: रथ, ; Avestan: raθa) is the Indo-Iranian term for a spoked-wheel chariot. The term has been used since antiquity for both fast chariots and other wheeled vehicles pulled by animals or humans, in particular the large temple cars or processional carts still used in Indian religious processions to carry images of a deity.
==Harappan Civilisation== thumb|right| thumb|right|Copper sculpture of a bull-cart and rider, from a hoard at Daimabad, Maharashtra - Late Harappan, c2000 BCE The Indus Valley Civilization sites of Daimabad and Harappa in the Indian subcontinent, there is evidence for the use of terracotta model carts as early as 3500 BC during the Ravi Phase. There is evidence of wheeled vehicles (especially miniature models) in the Indus Valley Civilization, but not of chariots. According to Kenoyer,