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Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Indra, Namuchi and the foam

Bound by an oath not to kill Namuchi by day or night, with anything dry or wet, Indra kills him at daybreak with the foam of the waters.

Indra, Namuchi, The Ashvins, Saraswati

North India Pan-India