Indra

quoted 100 times by 7 works · as a person

Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.

71 quoted · 29 reported

10 authority 79 neutral 4 refuted 7 endorsed

in the voice of the poet 17 , poet 6 , Indra 5 , reciter 4 , worshippers 4 , Viṣṇu 3 , the reciter 3 , Bṛhaddiva Ātharvan 2 , Diti 2 , Gautama 2

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7 works

in the voice of the poet
Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 6 authority 43 neutral 2 refuted 3 endorsed 54 citations · 251 passages

maṇḍala 1 30 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 2 44 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 3 7 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 4 18 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 5 8 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 6 51 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 7 6 passages anchored here · maṇḍala 8 34 passages anchored here

and 2 more chapters

maṇḍala 9 · maṇḍala 10 52 passages anchored here

The poet directly addresses Indra in the imperative, asking him to seize and bring wealth and not diminish the singer's desire — a direct petitionary speech act.

Even the lame one found gold here — these things Indra did in the rapture of soma.

maṇḍala 2 ¶
in the voice of reciter
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 1 authority 14 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed 17 citations · 81 passages

kanda 1 4 passages anchored here · kanda 2 5 passages anchored here · kanda 3 6 passages anchored here · kanda 4 2 passages anchored here · kanda 6 2 passages anchored here · kanda 7 26 passages anchored here · kanda 12 18 passages anchored here · kanda 16

and 2 more chapters

kanda 18 4 passages anchored here · kanda 19 13 passages anchored here

The reciter speaks directly to Indra using second-person address throughout this block.

Those who dance along the golden couches in the mid-air — of those dog-companied ones, Indra has cut off the head.

kanda 7 ¶
in the voice of Viṣṇu
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 1 authority 15 neutral 1 refuted 17 citations · 77 passages

kanda 1 12 passages anchored here · kanda 2 5 passages anchored here · kanda 3 6 passages anchored here · kanda 6 5 passages anchored here · kanda 7 49 passages anchored here

Viṣṇu directly instructs the assembled gods on the scheme by which Vṛtra will be slain.

Having heard the words of the thousand-eyed Indra and of all the celestials, Viṣṇu addressed all the gods, with Indra at their head, saying:

kanda 7 ¶
in the voice of poet/worshippers
Sāmaveda Anonymous (Vedic) 1 authority 5 neutral 3 endorsed 9 citations · 25 passages

prapāṭhaka 2 · prapāṭhaka 3 · prapāṭhaka 4 14 passages anchored here · prapāṭhaka 5 6 passages anchored here · prapāṭhaka 7 · prapāṭhaka 11 · prapāṭhaka 12

The poet-worshippers directly address and command Indra throughout the window, forming the dominant speech-act of the hymns.

These soma juices, O Indra, bright and rich in sacred verse, have been pressed for your delight.

prapāṭhaka 4 ¶
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana Ṣimānanda 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

ch. 22 2 passages anchored here

The verse presents a set-off example statement about Indra to illustrate the third pramāṇa.

"Indra [is] the king of the gods"—[such] verbal [testimony] is the means of cognition [i.

ch. 22 ¶
Manusmṛti Manu 1 authority 1 citation

chapter 9

Each deity's 'vow' is stated as a formal doctrine being declared and named, constituting a rule-stating speech act.

As Indra sends down rain for the four months of the rainy season, so should he shower his kingdom with favors, observing the vow of Indra.

chapter 9 ¶
in the voice of Nārada
Vīramitrodaya Mitra Miśra 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

chapter 1 3 passages anchored here

The text stages a direct question-and-answer exchange ('Indra said... Nārada said...'), a dialogue structure explicitly marked in the source.

/ > Thus, these are the chief *tithis*, O Indra, that have been declared.

chapter 1 ¶

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authority: relied on as a source of legitimacy
neutral: identified or reported
refuted: argued against
extended: developed or continued
endorsed: agreed with
roman: the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
italic: named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
¶: the passage in this text that does the citing
7: beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.