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This is where myths are made, eh?

I fancied myself as a relay chariot, actually. Or a “Trained Chariot”.

On relay chariots and relays of chariots and trained chariots

MN 24 Rathavinīta offers the classic simile of a series of chariots ready to convey King Pasenadi from Sāvatthī to Sāketa, paralleling the various stages of the path. In the well-known translations by Vens Bodhi and Thanissaro, it is translated as the “relay chariots”. However I think this is a mistake. The word is a compound of two elements, both of which are well understood. ratha: chariot, cart, coach vinīta: the past participle of naya, i.e. “led”, but almost always used in the sense of…