因陀罗是印度最古老的经典《梨俱吠陀》里最重要的神。这部大约形成于公元前1500年至前1000年的诗集，约有四分之一的颂诗献给他，他手持金刚杵、掌管雷雨。佛教传入中国后，他以「帝释天」的名字出现在许多佛经和石窟壁画里。本篇「蚂蚁队伍」的寓言出自后来的《梵转往世书》，20世纪德国学者齐默在1946年出版的《印度艺术与文明中的神话与象征》一书中复述了它，让它在西方广为人知。

Indra is the most important god in the Rigveda, the oldest scripture of India. About a quarter of the hymns in this collection, composed roughly between 1500 and 1000 BC, are addressed to him, and he wields the thunderbolt vajra and rules over thunder and rain. When Buddhism came to China, he appeared in many Buddhist scriptures and cave murals under the name Dishitian. The parable of the parade of ants in this story comes from a later text, the Brahmavaivarta Purana, and the German scholar Heinrich Zimmer retold it in his 1946 book Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, making it widely known in the West.

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