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  2. Indra - Wikipedia

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    Indra was a prominent deity in the Historical Vedic religion. [32] In Vedic times Indra was described in Rig Veda 6.30.4 as superior to any other god. Sayana in his commentary on Rig Veda 6.47.18 described Indra as assuming many forms, making Agni, Vishnu, and Rudra his illusory forms. [57]

  3. List of mythological objects (Hindu mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Indra Kaakam - The sword of Indra; having a crescent shaped tip. Khanda - The khanda is a symbol of Shiva. Khanda often appears in Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh scriptures and art. Kharga - The Sword of Kali, which slaughters demons indiscriminately and without mercy. Nandaka - Is the sword of the Hindu god, Vishnu.

  4. Soma (drink) - Wikipedia

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    In the Vedas, the same word (soma) is used for the drink, the plant, and its deity. Drinking soma produces immortality (Amrita, Rigveda 8.48.3). Indra and Agni are portrayed as consuming soma in copious quantities. In the vedic ideology, Indra drank large amounts of soma while fighting the serpent demon Vritra. The consumption of soma by human ...

  5. Historical Vedic religion - Wikipedia

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    Many of the qualities of Indo-Iranian god of might/victory, Verethraghna, were transferred to the adopted god Indra, who became the central deity of the developing Old Indic culture. Indra was the subject of 250 hymns, a quarter of the Rig Veda.

  6. Rigvedic deities - Wikipedia

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    Grey Patridge, a form of Indra 2 Minor deities (one single or no dedicated hymn) Chitragupta , a son of Brahma and Sarasvati mentioned Rig Veda Book 8, Hymn 21, Stanza 18

  7. List of Hindu deities - Wikipedia

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    The number 33 comes from the number of Vedic gods explained by Yajnavalkya in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad – the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 2) . They are: 8-Vasu, 11-Rudra, and 12-Aaditya, 1-Indra and 1-Prajaapati. Brown, Joe David, ed. (1961). India.

  8. Hindu mythological wars - Wikipedia

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    Although an expert on the Vedas, a great king, and a great devotee of Shiva, he is the emperor of evil due to his patronage of demons, murder of kings and humiliation of the Gods headed by Indra. Indrajita: He was the first-born son of mighty Ravana. Originally his name was Meghanada. He was master of illusion war techniques.

  9. Vedic period - Wikipedia

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    The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.