Title: Om Lam Indraya Namah ("Om, I bow to Lord Indra")
Author: Kemis
Beta reader/support giver: manxsamaRating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of gore and other unsavoury things.
Word count: 2974 words
Prompt: RG Veda, Taishakuten/Ashura-ou: Courting - “You tried to reach deep but you never got in.”
Summary: Taishakuten lived his life by one rule - become strong enough to take what you covet the most.
A/N: It was meant to be a short, easy piece, but it became long and overly complicated. The lack of an English canon to refer to didn’t help, since I read the manga as it was published in my country. I researched the original Rigveda text and legends for help, so as result several bits of it found their way into the story. In the end I decided to stick with the names as I know them. Therefore, Taishakuten is referred to as Taishaku through most this fic, as the suffix ‘-ten’ indicates the title of Heavenly Emperor. For more references, you’ll find footnotes at the end of the fic.
( Fair cheeks hath Indra, Maghavan, the Victor, Lord of a great host, Stormer, strong in action. )