Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c14.43

c14.43

says another hymn of one of those favoured by the war-god. And it is possible that one can trace references to the destruction of the ‘bunds’ built to protect the Harappā cities from flood, so that the waters turned against them; it is difficult to be sure of this, because of the possibility of a sudden transition to the metaphorical usage of words describing Indra in his celestial character of Jupiter Pluvius releasing the rain and swelling the rivers, but the association of flood and conquest is significantly brought together in the same hymn from which the last quotation is taken: