15; and 100.
3, where are expressed doubts in regard to the existence of a real Indra.

How late is the worship of the popular Indra, and that it is not originality that causes his hymns to be placed early in each collection, may be judged from the fact that only of Indra (and Agni ?) are there idols: viii.1.

5; iv.24.

10: "Who gives ten cows for my Indra?
When he has slain his foe let (the purchaser) give him to me again."[13] Thus it happens that one rarely finds such poems to Indra as to Dawn and to other earlier deities, but almost always stereotyped descriptions of prowess, and mechanical invitations to come to the altar and reward the hymn-maker.

There are few of Indra's many hymns that do not smack of _soma_ and sacrifice.