The Antiquities of Orissa v1.c7.364

v1.c7.364

“Cities are repeatedly mentioned, and although, as the objects of Indra’s hostility, they may be considered as cities in the clouds, the residences of the Asuras, yet the notion of such exaggerations of any class of beings could alone have been suggested by actual observations, and the idea of cities in heaven could have been derived only from familiarity with similar assemblages upon earth; but, as above intimated, it is probable that by Asuras we are to understand, at least occasionally, the anti-Vaidik people of India, and theirs were the cities destroyed. It is also to be observed, that