The Development of Hindu Iconography c9.44

c9.44

² A. C. Das, op. cit., p. 146. He cites *R.V.*, VIII. 69, 15-16, as referring to the mounting of an image of Indra on a golden chariot; according to him, the epithets *arbhako na kumārakah* (like a small-limbed boy) applied to Indra can only have reference to the small image of the god placed on the car; the word *dampate* (householder) also in the same hymn, applied to Indra, probably refers, in his opinion, to the household image of the God worshipped by the Ṛṣi. But all this is based on data of a very uncertain character.