Indra
c. 1500 BCE – 500 CEattested
Sapta Sindhu, Vedic north India
- Vedic
The Rigveda's most-hymned god, a thunder-wielding warrior who kills the serpent damming the world's rivers. Later Hinduism quietly demotes him.
Known for
- slaying of Vritra
- the vajra
- the drinking of soma
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.