A History of Sanskrit Literature c7.66

c7.66

Indra's name is found in the *Avesta* as that of a demon. His distinctive Vedic epithet, *Vṛitrahan*, also occurs there in the form of *verethraghna*, as a designation of the god of victory. Hence there was probably in the Indo-Iranian period a god approaching to the Vedic form of the Vṛitra-slaying and victorious Indra.