The boy’s cart could be read as reference to a text that came centuries after The Little Clay Cart was created. The boy’s gold cart and the trouble that it brings might be compared to D. H. Lawrence’s modern short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” In that twentieth-century story, a boy’s toy becomes the source of an awful lot of consternation. In The Little Clay Cart, the gold cart sets off a series of disquieting events that almost lead to the death of the boy’s dad.

The play might also be viewed as reference to Jesus Christ. Carudatta could be presented as a charitable, self-sacrificing, Christlike figure. Carudatta comes close to dying because of the sins of others. More so, there might be some resemblance between Mary Magdalene and Vasantasena.