Gods and Saints of the Great Bnilnuava. 45 



are, there is Indra." He is a bull, for the bull is the lord of 

 animals. ^ 



Indra 's relations with his chief enem}- are not those of an eas}- 

 victor. He fears, gets his power as a gift, parlejs, etc., 8. 4. 5 : 

 5. 11. He fears the Brhat which was "born with him," and .surpasses 

 him till the god takes away a sixteenth part of it to make the 

 sodasiii, 12. 13. 1. He receives help and cannot make it avail (in 

 one of the many tales of personified metres, 12. 13. 4). The same 

 opening serves for another tale at 13. 4. 1, where Prajapati is said 

 to have extracted " the virile power of metres " and given it to 

 Indra. so that at last " he split the demon's skull in the middle,"' 

 sJtnaii, \\hence the name sinia (as in the following the mahananinyal) 

 verses are etymologized from ntahyo, cr}"); but see ib. 9. 4 {sinia 

 as sainana). 



The chief variations from the stereotyped formula of the Vrtra 

 tales (to the effect that b}' the help of this or that chaunt or rite 

 hidra killed Vrtra) are as follows. Indra raised his bolt against 

 X'rtra three times and three times Vrtra said, " Do not smite me, 

 there is power in me ; I will give it to you." He gave it to Indra 

 each time ; each time Vi.snu received it [from Indra]. So the verse 

 (Rig Veda, 6. 69. 8) says " You both conquer, win a thousand, " 

 and the moral is that one should give a thousand cows as a 

 sacrificial fee, in three divisions, 20. 15. 6. Compare AB. 6. 15. 11. 

 and SB. 1. 6. 3. 17; 3. 3. 1. 13 and 15; 5. 5. 5. 5, from which it 

 is apparent that each .story has a double form, for (in SB., for 

 example 1 more than ' power ' is given, and in the application of the 

 Vedic verse, the description of the cows is one practical!}' dupli- 

 cated in the story falready told above i about Soma and Indra being 

 forced to divide with Yama the cows, or the thousandth cow, which 

 has all the qualities of the thousand separate cows. 2 The tale (here) 



' 14. ii. 34; 19. 7. 5; IB. 3. 8 ; 9. 4. 8 ; r^ahhata. 19. 12. 2-3 (18. 6. 

 14): TB. 1. G. 1. 8. etc. 



- In PB 21. 1. 3 f. tlie cow comes out of the water first for Soma as 

 a brown red-eyed heifer, a year old, as tlie soviakraymu cow ; second for 

 Indi-a as a speckled cow, saball paHthauhl^ the iiidi-iyuispu, three years old ; 

 tliird for Yama, as an " old, diseased, hornless, cow, or a dun cow, two 

 years old. and too short in the forequarters," the anustaranl. TS. 7. 1. 

 6. 3 lia.s here ro/iinl. laksmana^ pastJiaukJ, vartraghnl (as in SB.), but for 

 Yama's cow the descriptions differ altogether, except for the word " old " ; 

 viz . in TS., miirklid tajjaghanyCt^ in PB.. kusUV xfRgy (-iidaid) dhumrCi vCi 

 dityCuthl 'nuatah hraslyas'i [ditya for liviTiya, cf. tnryuith'i). Sayana explains 

 hii4a as hi^tavania (PW. for htsiha). Yama is elsewhere rej^resented as 



