The lord of the Trāyastriṃśa heaven on the summit of Mount Sumeru. As one of the eight guardians of the directions, Indra guards the eastern quarter. In Buddhist sūtras, he is a disciple of the Buddha and protector of the Dharma and its practitioners. He is often referred to by the epithets Śatakratu, Śakra, and Kauśika.
indra
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Name Variants
17 namesTibetan
ཨ་ཛ་ཏི,བརྒྱ་བྱིན,དབང་ཕྱུག,ལྷའི་དབང་པོ,དབང་པོ,དབང་ལྡན,ཨི་ད,དབང
a dza ti,brgya byin,dbang phyug,lha’i dbang po,dbang po,dbang ldan,i da,dbang
Sanskrit
indra,śakra,ajati,devendra
Pali
Inda