The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c9.90

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c9.90

Now it is true that the emergence of spring from winter is sometimes treated poetically as a battle. We can understand this much better in a north country like Sweden where the conflict is hard and long. Even there these phenomena seem hardly to suggest so fierce and Herculean a contest as that which is supposed to take place between Indra and the frost giant Vritra:

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