In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, a universal monarch or world-ruler whose authority extends in all directions like the spokes of a wheel.
From Sanskrit 'chakravartin,' combining 'chakra' (wheel) and 'vartin' (turning/ruling). This ancient Indian concept described an ideal king whose rule spread universally, symbolized by the turning wheel as an emblem of power.
The chakravartin was the ultimate ruler in ancient Indian political philosophy—a kind of universal emperor—and the concept influenced how Buddhism spread because rulers with this ideal spread Buddhism across Asia!
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