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Greeks, as they were much larger than any order of beings, 

 and made war with the gods.* He has a wife named Madora 

 or Sudd — • 



gc,S3© Q<^C*i5 ZtQc^.—Guttila. 

 and is thence designated Madorapiya. He is Sak or Sakra, 

 from his — "power divine in all things known." He is the 

 Indra or Tnduradikpati, the regent of the East, whence he 

 appears in the character of Jupiter Tonens. He is represented 

 as having a thousand eyes ; and he 



Whose all conscious eyes the world behold. — Homer. 

 is thence called S aliases. One of the versified works on 

 synonyms, has the following lines embodying all the names 

 above given : — 



castled ©eteo® ®\§ ^sste^coO $g 6 



Ndmawaliya. 



Thus, in the words of Sir William Jones,f " This Jupiter 

 or Deispeter, is the Indian God of the visible heavens, called 

 Indra or the king, and Divespeter, or Lord of the sky, who 

 has also the character of the Roman Genius, or chief of the 

 good spirits, but most of his epithets in Sanscrit are the same 

 with those of the Eonian Jove." He had three principal 

 consorts, one of whom is the Sudd, to whom we have already 

 referred. The others are Sudammd and Nanda, of whom 

 one of our bards sings : — 



One of Indra's courtesans, Rambd, Sir William Jones 

 identifies with "the popular Venus, the goddess of beauty 

 that was produced, according to the Indian fabulists, from 

 the froth of the churned ocean." 



Indra's celestial city is called Amardvati ; his palace, 



# It is generally agreed, that the Giants were personifications of the 

 elements, and that their wars with the gods refer to the throes of the 

 world in its state of chaos. — Hardy, p. 47 



t See his works p. '248. 



