Sakaṭa
Sakaṭa,1 (m.& nt.) [cp.Sk.śakaṭa; Vedic śakaṭī] a cart,waggon; a cartload D.II,110; Vin.III,114; J.I,191; Miln.238; PvA.102; VbhA.435 (simile of two carts); SnA 58 (udaka-bharita°),137 (bīja°).sakaṭāni pajāpeti to cause the carts to go on J.II,296.
--gopaka the guardian of the waggon DhA.IV,60.--bhāra a cart-load VvA.79.--mukha the front or opening of the waggon,used as adj.“facing the waggon or the cart” (?) at D.II,234,of the earth -- that is,India as then known -- and at D.II,235 (comp.Mahāvastu III,208),of six kingdoms in Northern India.At the second passage B.explains that the six kingdoms all debouched alike on the central kingdom,which was hexagonal in shape.This explanation does not fit the other passage.Could sakaṭa there be used of the constellation Rohinī,which in mediæval times was called the Cart? Cp.Dial.II.269.--vāha a cart-load Pv.II,75.--vyūha “the waggon array,” a wedge-shaped phalanx J.II,404; IV,343; Vism.384.(Page 659)