indrAdayaH surAH

[Madhav Deshpande]

The list of gods beginning with Indra commonly occurs in the Nala story
from the Mahabharta.  See the selection of this story in Lanman's Sanskrit
reader: P.7, line 10, 13 (mahendrAdyAH); p. 9, line 7 (Sakro'gnir varuNo
yamaH); p. 11, line 9 (devAS cendrapurogamAH).
        All the best,
                                        Madhav Deshpande

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Dominique.Thillaud wrote:

> Dear Indologists,
>         I've found in MMW dictionary, under Adi, the syntagm indrAdayaH
> surAH (without any reference). But it seems to me that, in the Rg veda, the
> lists of Gods begin more frequently by vAyu than by indra. Even in the
> mahAbhArata, arjuna is a third son. What could be a list of Gods begining
> by indra? it's a canonical gaNa? from which text?
>         I'd like to be enlightened.
> Dominique
>
> Dominique THILLAUD
> Universite' de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
>