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