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was Vritra really a serpent ? In my opinion it was a dragon
tFx/By
No.889
The language barrier misleads us to interpret it as serpent because apparently there is no word for "Dragon" in Sanskrit.
fIIV5x
No.892
>>889(OP)
it's a metaphysical terminology for someone who is hoarding goods etc. can be just mere fort.
Hence indra is also called purandar - destroyer of forts.
Ib/5Cm
No.893
>>892
>muh metaphysical
Why can't low IQ jeets appreciate myths as they are ? Why do they feel the urge to subject everything to scientific standards ? Btw its "metaphorical" not "metaphysics", learn the difference pajeet. And restrict yourselves to posting on /b/ & /sci/ and don't post on /rta/ ever again lest you want me to burn your whole dalit family alive.
PP6v6h
No.894
>>893
Indra destroyed sm bandit or leader called vritra
tIRyti
No.1165
>>889(OP)
>was Vritra really a serpent ? In my opinion it was a dragon
This is sort of those questions that becomes tallied with are all cats truly felines? Serpent is a broad sense of usage, as seen where the Shinto, Buddhist and Hindu faiths merge with taoism. He would be dragon but strictly because he is a serpent, rather than the euro-centeic dragons we are used to seeing. He would be more akin to the long or ryu type dragon which get out in the same bracket as mythical serpents.
tIRyti
No.1166
>>892
>Hence indra is also called purandar - destroyer of forts.
That's conflating two different aspects together, as Purhandhar is a term he got by slaying many forts of actually Asura. (As forts that would be hit by literal lightening will not survive) Showing divinity will outclass materialistic defence.
Point here being, while Vrita was symbolic, he was in a literal sense still a serpent that was hoarding everything. Both this representing the physical aspect of order and chaos, a lightning being a force of heaven a dragon hoarding every thing being physical representation of greef and gluttony.
Later this became more diverse as Asuras would build forts which would be torn down by Indra, and him breaking enough of those asura forts (approximately 99+) he got labelled the castle breaker, in sense that both primordial force and materialistic ones that gets greedy over any kind of resources won't stand in way of righteous wrath, unless it serves greater purpose.
<Reminder that Indra is actually a name and it was the duty being done so well he got the said name passed on as title
tIRyti
No.1167
>>890
>>891
I feel like ancient context of dragon and in the modern context of dragon as it came from the amalgamation of different entities (nagas, the ryu, the long, and the draco that was used in different folklore in Europe) all together to form dragon/dagon. But as far as OP is considered this is correct
ef9vMn
No.1252
>>889(OP)
But word vrita doesn't sound similar to any of the dragon legends in other IE cultures
ef9vMn
No.1253
Vishap is the closest thing but even that seems distinct
CFkNzD
No.1261
>>1260
I mean the closes sounding word to vrita. Google says the Sanskrit word for Dragon is Ajgar but that just seems like a general word for snakes.
