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Indra

noun
1.
Chief Hindu god of the Rig-Veda; god of rain and thunder.





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"Indra" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mother". Each year he was born anew and rapidly attained to manhood; then he was slain by a fierce rival who symbolized the season of pestilence-bringing and parching sun heat, or the rainy season, or wild beasts of prey. Or it might be that he was slain by his son, as Cronos was by Zeus and Dyaus by Indra. The new year ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... the rajah's prayer, the lesser gods implored their chief Indra to rid them of the demons sent by Ravana, the Satan of the Hindus. This evil spirit, by standing on his head in the midst of five fires ten thousand years in succession, had secured from Brahma a promise that no god, demon, ...
— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber
... might be compounded of the Arabic al, and ibha, a Sanskrit name for the elephant, is exposed to still greater etymological exception. PICTET'S solution is, that in the Sanskrit epics "the King of Elephants," who has the distinction of carrying the god Indra, is called airarata or airavana, a modification of airavanta, "son of the ocean," which again comes from iravat, "abounding in water." "Nous aurions done ainsi, comme correlatif du gree [Greek: elephanto], une ancienne forme, airavanta ou ailavanta, affaiblie plus tard en airavata ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


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