Lightning
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
golden-wheeled ones · lightnings · sharp lightning · their own lightning
spoken of as
1 expressionlightnings1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
O lightnings, your golden-wheeled ones find no foothold.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Lightnings, addressed as golden-wheeled beings that find no foothold, in the closing cosmological verse.
O lightnings, your golden-wheeled ones find no foothold.
Rigveda
Lightning as a weapon-attribute of the invoked gods.
The mighty, powerful strength of those two bountiful ones — their sharp lightning — in the fists that are strong as wood, the slayer of Vṛtra seeks the cows.
they are like fires, they who have their own lightning, who shoot forward like the torrents of rivers.