[INDOLOGY] Indra

[rainer stuhrmann]

Sūrya is once said to be hári-keśa (10,137,7) and also, in association 
with the rising of the sun, hári-keśa is once said from Savitar, RV 
10.139,1ab:

sū́ryaraśmir hárikeśaḥ purástāt savitā́ jyótir úd ayām̐ ájasram /

“With rays of the sun, with yellow-red (golden) hair, from the east 
Savitar has just raised up the unfading light.”

Also Agni is once, RV 3,2,13,  said to be hári-keśa and RV 1, 79,1, to 
be of "golden hair" (híraṇya-keśa).

This seems to be metaphoric in contrast to Indra´s anthropomorphic 
descriptions.


Rainer


Am 03.07.2016 um 01:20 schrieb 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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