A History of Sanskrit Literature c7.23

c7.23

To the successful and therefore optimistic Vedic Indian, the gods seemed almost exclusively beneficent beings,ベストowers of long life and prosperity. Indeed, the only deity in whom injurious features are at all prominent is Rudra. The lesser evils closely connected with human life, such as disease, proceed from minor demons, while the greater evils manifested in Nature, such as drought and darkness, are produced by powerful demons like Vṛitra. The conquest of these demons brings out all the more strikingly the beneficent nature of the gods.