Thunderbolt
“vajra”
object · 8 works · 37 mentions · 67 anchored passages
thunderbolt · vajra · the bolt · the thunderbolt · bolt · Vajra · iron thunderbolt · Indra's thunderbolt · bolt-bearer's bolt · burning weapon
spoken of as
4 expressionsVajra“Indra's weapon”18 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit) · Caryāmelāpakapradīpa (Sanskrit) · Kalpabuddha (Kawi)
Thou, O Indra, bearest in thy arms the hymn along with the dawn, whetting the vajra with thy might.
The thunderbolt“vajra”4 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
The remainders rest now in their common womb for your glory, O Indra, by the greatness of the thunderbolt.
Indra's bolt“vajra”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
O Indra and Varuṇa, the two of you, mighty ones, strike down with the most powerful thunderbolt here in this one the mischievous;
the bolt“vajra”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Sharp is the Maruts' weapon, their army — who has dared to oppose thy thunderbolt, O Indra?
in the texts
Rigveda
Indra's chief weapon, fashioned by Uśanā Kāvya and used against Vṛtra and other adversaries.
The exhilarating, Vṛtra-slaying thunderbolt for crossing over which the wise Uśanā Kāvya gave you — he fashioned it.
May the stone-armed one thrust aside our adversarial boulder with his great weapon, thunderbolt in hand.
He fashioned the thunderbolt with its team of steeds and propped up heaven — for the four-footed and the two-footed, for the hero's sake.
Sāmaveda
Indra's characteristic weapon, the hundred-jointed thunderbolt used to smite Vṛtra and other foes.
The slayer of Vṛtra, the hundred-powered one, smites Vṛtra with the hundred-jointed thunderbolt.
If there were a hundred heavens of yours, O Indra, and a hundred earths — a thousand suns could not equal you, O bearer of the thunderbolt;
You who hold the stone are not given away from us for a great price, nor for a thousand, nor for ten thousand, O thunderbolt-bearer, nor for a hundred, O you who have hundreds of gifts.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Mythic weapon (Indra's vajra) invoked to strike down a rival, paralleling Indra's slaying of Vrtra.
O thunderbolt, O missile, strike down the one who conquers, striking him along the parting of his hair.
Struck down by the thunderbolt, may he lie.
I take up the thunderbolt, as it were.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Indra's weapon, used to strike down Vṛtra.
While they stood there deliberating, Sahasrākṣa Purandara grasped the thunderbolt with both arms and hurled it at the head of Vṛtra.
"Enraged, great Indra the thunderbolt-wielder struck Kumbhakarṇa with the sharp vajra;
fearsome as Indra's thunderbolt, equal in weight to the vajra, the slayer of gods, dānavas, gandharvas, yakṣas, and kiṃnaras —
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
The vajra, named both as the practitioner's held implement and as the meditative state in which visions occur.
He sees [this] at the time of yoga, established in the vajra of meditation.
He of great renown, [holder of] the secret vajra, sees his own image in a dream;
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
The thunderbolt is Zeus's threatened weapon against Anchises if he reveals the truth.
But if you tell all and foolishly boast that you lay with rich-crowned Aphrodite, Zeus will smite you in his anger with a smoking thunderbolt.
De Rerum Natura
The lightning-bolt/thunderbolt whose natural (non-divine) causes and effects Lucretius explains at length in Book VI.
The thunderbolt shakes into shivers all
The darkling tempests big with thunderbolts
Those thunderbolts rush on and down, because
Kalpabuddha
The ritual implement (vajra, thunderbolt/diamond scepter) held by Lord Akṣobhya.
The `vajra` is his implement.