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Indra is not a visible object of nature in the Vedic texts, nor is he a personification of any object, but that agent which causes the lightning, the rains and the rivers to flow. The Vedic prayers to Indra, states Jan Gonda, generally ask “produce success of this rite, throw down those who hate the materialized Brahman”. The hymns of Rigveda declare him to be the “king that moves and moves not”, the friend of mankind who holds the different tribes on earth together.