A new approach to the Vedas : an essay in translation and exegesis

THREE VEDIC HYMNS

which was originally Varuna’s and guarded by the Gandharva Vigvavasu or Kréanu (IV, 27, 3). In any case, and already in the Rg Veda, Indra is wholly an angel of this world.1** In effect, Indra in Brahmanical mythology plays that part which is allotted to Mara (Kamadeva) in Buddhism.