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 | | The Rig Veda also describes him as the great warrior, and leader of the Aryans, who crumbles the humble earthworks of the fl, snub-nosed, "primitive," of the land, loots the treasure houses of the "godless," and "frees the rivers (a phrase taken to mean the breaking down of dams and levees). |
 | | The defeat of Indra, in Hindu mythology, at the hands of the demon Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Sri Lanka, and his release from captivity at the behest of Brahma was attributed to the seduction of Ahalya. |
 | | But the tale of this humiliating punishment, as recounted in the Ramayana, may have been no more than the recognition of the decline of India's celestial status, lowered perhaps by the Brahmins as a way of decreasing the influence of the divine patron of the warrior caste. |
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