(in-DRAH): the captain of the Vedic gods, who leads their armies into battles against daemons and monsters; the patron deity of Fighting Tiger Veterans and Terminators.
The Vedic warrior god, wielder of the lightning bold (vajra). He is the liberator from obstructive forces. He set free water and light by killing Vritra, the gigantic and evil snake.
indian name from hindu mythology which means "possessing drops of rain" (sanskrit: indu - "a drop" and ra - "possessing"). indra is the name of the hindu warrior god of the sky and rain.
Chief of the Gods. The God of thunder, lightning and rain.
the chief of the administrative demigods, king of the heavenly planets and presiding deity of rain.
king of the Vedic gods, during whose annual banner ( dhvaja) festival, Bharata is said to have first enacted the Sanskrit theater. As Kuiper notes, this would have associated the theater to the cosmogonic struggle between the gods and the demons ( asuras) at the end of the year.
In Vedic times, Indra was the supreme ruler of the gods. He was the leader of the Devas, the god of war, the god of thunder and storms, the greatest of all warriors, the strongest of all beings. He was the defender of gods and mankind against the forces of evil. He had early aspects of a sun-god, riding in a golden chariot across the heavens, but he is more often known as the god of thunder, wielding the celestial weapon Vajra, the lightening bolt. He also employs the bow, a net, and a hook in battle. He shows aspects of being a creater god, having set order to the cosmos, and since he was the one who brought water to earth, he was a fertility god as well. He also had the power to revive slain warriors who had fallen in battle. ( Encyclopedia Mythica)
Leader of deities shown in Indian art riding an elephant ( Airawat)
Supreme god of Vedic Hinduism, god of war, and national god of the Aryans. With his thunderbolts in his hands, most think he and the Greek god Zeus had common origin. He is all but forgotten in modern Hinduism.
The god of the firmament, the personified atmosphere. In the Vedas he stands in the first rank among the gods, but he is not uncreate, and is represe... more
The king of the demigods, ruler of Svargaloka. In each manvantara there is a different Indra. The name of the current Indra is Purandara.
The common name for the God in Buddhist scriptures called 'Sakradevanam'. In ancient Indian mythology, he is roughly equivalent in Zeus of Greek lore, being the God of the Sky who battles the demons with bolts of lightning ( Vajra ). He is inferior to the three great Hindu Gods (Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva). He was adopted by the Buddhists as their protector among the Gods, and often appears as the leader of Godly congregations in the scriptures. See the entry on Gods for a more general discussion of the role of Gods in Buddhist scripture. The chief god of the realm of desire. He resides on the summit of Mount Sumeru in the palace of complete victory, and is also known as Shakra, the ruler of the gods.
chief god of the Rig-Veda; god of rain and thunder
a sky god and a war god who holds the earth and the heavens apart, on occasion making the earth tremble
king of the devas or demigods.
a great Vedic deity who transmitted the teachings of Ayurveda to the sage Bharadvaja.
god of the heavens, comparable to Zeus
Chief deity of the Aryans; depicted as a colossal, hard-drinking warrior. (p. 58)
The Lord of gods; the ruler of heaven.
Indra (Sanskrit: इनà¥à¤¦à¥à¤° or इंदà¥à¤°, indra) is the god of weather and war, and lord of Svargaloka in Hinduism. Mentioned first as the chief deity in the sacred text of Rig Veda, Indra is bestowed with a heroic and almost brash character.