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==In the Rigveda ==
==In the Rigveda ==
The Rigveda states,
The Rigveda states,
<blockquote>He under whose supreme control are horses, all chariots, the villages, and cattle;<br>He who gave being to the Sun and Morning, who leads the waters, He, O men, is Indra. (2.12.7, trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith|Griffith)</blockquote>
<blockquote>He under whose supreme control are horses, all chariots, the villages, and cattle;<br>He who gave being to the Sun and Morning, who leads the waters, He, O men, is Indra. (2.12.7, trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith|Griffith)"</blockquote>
It further states,
It further states,
<blockquote>Indra, you lifted up the pariah who was oppressed, you glorified the blind and the lame. (Rg-Veda 2:13:12)</blockquote>
<blockquote>Indra, you lifted up the pariah who was oppressed, you glorified the blind and the lame. (Rg-Veda 2:13:12)"</blockquote>
Indra is, with Varuna and Mitra, one of the Ādityas, the chief gods of the Rigveda (besides Agni and others such as the Ashvins). He delights in drinking soma and his central feat is his heroic defeat of Vritra|Vṛtrá, liberating the Rigvedic rivers|rivers, or alternatively, his smashing of the Vala (Vedic)|Vala cave, a stone enclosure where the Panis had imprisoned the cows that are habitually identified with Ushas, the dawn(s). He is the God of war#Hinduism|god of war, smashing the stone fortresses of the dasa|Dasyu, but he is also invoked by combatants on both sides in the Battle of the Ten Kings.
Indra is, with Varuna and Mitra, one of the Ādityas, the chief gods of the Rigveda (besides Agni and others such as the Ashvins). He delights in drinking soma and his central feat is his heroic defeat of Vritra|Vṛtrá, liberating the Rigvedic rivers|rivers, or alternatively, his smashing of the Vala (Vedic)|Vala cave, a stone enclosure where the Panis had imprisoned the cows that are habitually identified with Ushas, the dawn(s). He is the God of war#Hinduism|god of war, smashing the stone fortresses of the dasa|Dasyu, but he is also invoked by combatants on both sides in the Battle of the Ten Kings.