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CHAPTER VII.

THE STORM DEITIES.

I. Indra.

As was noticed previously, Indra, together with Agni and Surya, by means of sacrifice, obtained supremacy

INDRA.

over the other gods ; and if we may judge from the number of hymns addressed to him in the Vedas, he was the most popular deity.