@AndrewQuintman It's also quite literally a weapon though, a very famous one too. It's called vajrayudha for a reason. 😂 When Krishna mentions his vibhutis he mentions that he is the vajra, and not Sudarshana Chakra etc. because vajra was made from the bones of the sage Dadhichi/Dadhyan.
@AndrewQuintman Presumably he's only referring specifically to the vajra of Indra, because the one that is given to Durga by Indra in Devi Mahatmyam was a duplicate forged from his own vajra.
@AndrewQuintman Off topic, but for the Vedic mantra I think most of the Western Indologists/philologists take navatīr nava to mean 99, but both Bhatta Bhaskara ("दशाधिकान्यष्टौ च शतानि") and Sayana ("दशोत्तराष्टशतसङ्ख्याकाः") take it to mean 810, or ninety times nine.
@AndrewQuintman Geldner's German translation does have ninety times nine, but the Russian translation by Elizarenkova has ninety-nine (devyanosto devyat'), as does the Griffith's English translation.
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