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| Keywords: INDRA, king of the gods.gif en TRIBUTES TO A FEW OF THE LESS COMMONLY PICTURED INDRA king of the gods FROM THE RIG VEDA He who made fast the tottering earth who made still the quaking mountains who measured out and extended the expanse of the air who propped up the sky -- he my people is Indra He by whom all these changes were rung who drove the race of Dasas down into obscurity who took away the flourishing wealth of the enemy as a winning gambler takes the stake -- he my people is Indra He who encourages the weary and the sick and the poor priest who is in need who helps the man who harnesses the stones to press Soma he who has lips fine for drinking -- he my people is Indra pp 160-161 VEDIC DEITIES Source of all images http //members xoom it/kundalini/kundalini_eng/ downloaded Oct 1999 The website owner says he got these images from a 19th-century textbook on Hinduism Source of all text The Rig Veda; An Anthology trans Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty New York Penguin 1981 century 19 http //www columbia edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/bce_500back/vedas/pantheon/pantheon html author other versions Custom license marker 2015 11 29 PD-Old Indra Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
