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  • learn that the dragon Vrtra has ruled Thavnair for millennia, hiding behind a figurehead satrap. While testing a ward made from Vrtra's scales, the alchemist...
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    Hinduism states, "... in the Mahābhārata Vṛtra is the son of Danāyu, (and) the Ṛigveda (1.32.9) speaks of Vṛtra as the son of Danu." However, in books 2-7...
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    Indra is the embodiment of good and represents the Devas, while the dragon Vrtra is the embodiment of evil and an Asura. During this battle between good...
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  • 『肉食獣のテーブルマナー』フリートークにて。 "声優・ナレーターの養成スクール【日本ナレーション演技研究所】". nichinare.com. Retrieved 2018-04-06. "【ラジオ】「琴浦さん」ESP研究会活動報告 第2回(2013.03.08)". Niconico...
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    (शक्र, powerful one), Vṛṣan (वृषन्, mighty) Vṛtrahan (वृत्रहन्, slayer of Vṛtra) Meghavāhana (मेघवाहन, he whose vehicle is cloud) Devarāja (देवराज, king...
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  • Orifiel and Sakuya; his sentient sword Durandal; and his dragon companion Vrtra. Asura eventually won, defeating the Ratio general Hypnos in battle. Before...
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  • 2011, s.v. ártharvan-. Lubotsky 2011, s.v. vivásvant-. Lubotsky 2011, s.v. vṛtrá-. Lubotsky 2011, s.v. usás-. Lubotsky 2011, s.v. índra-. Fournet 2010. Lubotsky...
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    tradition, the only dragon of importance is Vrtra, but "there is no Iranian tradition of a dragon such as Indian Vrtra" (Boyce, 1975:91-92). Moreover, while...
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    2013). Srimad Bhagavatam. Lulu.com. p. 77. ISBN 978-1-291-22965-3. www.wisdomlib.org (28 January 2019). "Story of Vṛtra". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved...
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    include the mušḫuššu of ancient Mesopotamia; Apep in Egyptian mythology; Vṛtra in the Rigveda; the Leviathan in the Hebrew Bible; Grand'Goule in the Poitou...
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    resulting in creation: RV 10.104.10 ārdayad vṛtram akṛṇod ulokaṃ he hit Vrtra fatally, cutting [> creating] a free path. RV 6.47.4 varṣmāṇaṃ divo akṛṇod...
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  • hánti "(he) strikes, kills" < *gʷʰen-ti, gʰnánti "they strike, kill"; vṛtra·han "Vṛtra-killer, a name of Indra" Av ǰainti "(he) strikes, kills", ni-γne (mid...
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    would then be directly cognate to the Rigvedic myth of Indra defeating Vrtra, liberating Ushas. Another key similarity between Aphrodite and the Indo-European...
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  • emergence of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, who had come with Azdaja's brother Vrtra to search for his sister. After the deaths of Scarmiglione and Barbariccia...
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  • twelfth Roman semones of the carmen Arvale, in his task of killing the dragon Vrtra thus freeing the waters and averting draught. He traces the etymology of...
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    pp. 170–171. Slade, Benjamin (2007). "Untydras ealle: Grendel, Cain, and V̥rtra: Indo-European śruti and Christian sm̥rti in Beowulf". In Geardagum. 27:...
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    during a Vedic puja, according to Wade Wheelock, is: Indra-Agni, slayers of Vrtra with the beautiful thunderbolt, prosper us with new gifts; O Indra, bring...
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    sacrifices endowed with excellent sacrificial fees', adding that Vishnu 'killed Vrtra Namuci' (a legend also related to the development of the Narasimha incarnation)...
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    chief of whom are Indra, a heroic god praised for having slain his enemy Vrtra; Agni, the sacrificial fire; and Soma, the sacred potion or the plant it...
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    been compared to the Vedic epithet ā-śáyāna-, predicated of the dragon Vṛtra-, who captured the cows/rivers. Related to this notion, the Okeanos is represented...
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