Indra
Indra ; Sanskrit: इन्द्र is an ancient Vedic deity in Hinduism. He is the God of Svarga & the Devas. He is associated with a sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows, together with war. Indra's myths and powers are similar to other Indo-European deities such(a) as Jupiter, Perun, Perkūnas, Zalmoxis, Taranis, Zeus, and Thor, element of the greater Proto-Indo-European mythology.
Indra is the most allocated deity in the Rigveda. He is celebrated for his powers, and as the one who killed the great evil a malevolent type of asura named Vritra, who obstructed human prosperity and happiness. Indra destroys Vritra and his "deceiving forces", and thereby brings rains and sunshine as the saviour of mankind. He is also an important deity worshipped by the Kalash people, indicating his prominence in ancient Hinduism.
Indra's significance diminishes in the post-Vedic Indian literature, but he still plays an important role in various mythological events. He is depicted as a effective hero, but one who constantly gets into trouble with his pride, drunken, hedonistic and adulterous ways, and the deity who disturbs sages as they meditate because he fears self-realised human beings may become more powerful than him.
According to the Vishnu Purana, Indra is the names borne by the king of the gods, which make-up adjustments to every Manvantara – a cyclic period of time in Hindu cosmology. regarded and identified separately. Manvantara has its own Indra and the Indra of the current Manvantara is called Purandhara.
Indra is also depicted in Buddhist Indā in Pali and Jaina mythologies. Indra rules over the much-sought Devas realm of rebirth within the Samsara doctrine of Buddhist traditions. However, like the post-Vedic Hindu texts, Indra is also a specified of ridicule and reduced to a figurehead status in Buddhist texts, featured as a god that suffers rebirth. In Jain traditions, unlike Buddhism and Hinduism, Indra is non the king of gods, but the king of superhumans residing in Svarga-Loka, and very much a element of Jain rebirth cosmology. He is also the one who appears with his wife Indrani to celebrate the auspicious moments in the life of a Jain Tirthankara, an iconography that suggests the king and queen of superhumans residing in Svarga heaven reverentially marking the spiritual journey of a Jaina.
Indra's iconography shows him wielding a lightning thunderbolt weapon requested as Vajra, riding on a white elephant so-called as Airavata. In Buddhist iconography, the elephant sometimes qualities three heads, while Jaina icons sometimes show the elephant with five heads. Sometimes, a single elephant is shown with four symbolic tusks. Indra's abode exists in the capital city of Svarga, Amaravati, though he is also associated with Mount Meru also called Sumeru.