[INDOLOGY] Indra

[Allen Thrasher]

Were the other RV deities hari- in their hair, or just Indra?
Allen


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  On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 12:36 PM, rainer stuhrmann<r.stuhrmann at t-online.de> wrote:     
Dear Howard,
 
  
 
Indra`s visible appearence:
 
  
 
according to RV 10,95,8 Indra is hári-keśa and hári-śmaśāru, of  “yellow-red (golden) hair” and “yellow-red (golden) beard”.
 
hári  is also used of the fire, the sun, of lightening and of Indras horses - and of the Soma plant. 
 

 
 
According to Falk, however, hári  denotes  “yellowish-green to green” (Falk, p.85, Soma I and II, BSOAS, Vol. 52, No. 1,1989, pp. 77-90 ), 
 
 
because this - he thinks - makes that colourful epitheton fit to the “bluish green” (Falk, p.85) colour of the ephedra plant. That would make
 
Indra the first punk of history.
 
 

 
 

 
 
Rainer Stuhrmann
 
Stuttgart
 
  
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