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)
Drink, O Indra wielder of the vajra, much-doing, enjoying gladly the curds of the midday pressing.
The thunderbolt“vajra”4 mentions
Rigveda (Sanskrit) · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Sāmaveda (Sanskrit)
smite him like a heavenly thunderbolt.
Indra's bolt“vajra”1 mention
Rigveda (Sanskrit)
Who holds the bolt in his arms, eager — like a full vessel stocked with goods.
in the texts
Rigveda
Indra's chief weapon, fashioned by Uśanā Kāvya and used against Vṛtra and other adversaries.
May the stone-armed one thrust aside our adversarial boulder with his great weapon, thunderbolt in hand.
The exhilarating, Vṛtra-slaying thunderbolt for crossing over which the wise Uśanā Kāvya gave you — he fashioned it.
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.
Indra, the thunderbolt-bearer, the golden one.
Press out the soma for the soma-drinking, thunderbolt-bearing Indra.
The slayer of Vṛtra, the hundred-powered one, smites Vṛtra with the hundred-jointed thunderbolt.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Mythic weapon (Indra's vajra) invoked to strike down a rival, paralleling Indra's slaying of Vrtra.
I take up the thunderbolt, as it were.
Let this thunderbolt satisfy through vow;
Struck down by the thunderbolt, may he lie.
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.
And, further, easily
Nor could the clouds,
Athrough their pores.
Kalpabuddha
The ritual implement (vajra, thunderbolt/diamond scepter) held by Lord Akṣobhya.
The `vajra` is his implement.