Vedic Mythology c5.s2.15

c5.s2.15

Indra is in three or four passages more or less distinctly identified with Sūrya¹⁸. Speaking in the first person (4, 26¹) Indra asserts that he was once Manu and Sūrya. He is once directly called Sūrya (10, 89²); and Sūrya and Indra are both invoked in another verse (8, 82⁴) as if they were the same person. In one passage Indra receives the epithet Savitṛ (2, 30¹). The ŚB. (1, 6, 4¹⁸), too, once identifies Indra with the sun, Vṛtra being the moon.