So even the priest (Agni) leaves Varuna, and with the warrior takes more pleasure in his twin Indra; of him making an All-god, a greatest god.

Varuna is passive; Indra is energetic; but Indra does not struggle for his lordship.

Inspired by _soma_, he smites, triumphs, punishes.

Victor already, he descends upon his enemies and with a blow destroys them.

It is rarely that he feels the effect of battle; he never doubts its issue.
There is evidence that this supremacy was not gained without contradiction, and the novelty of the last extravagant Indra-worship may be deduced, perhaps, from such passages as viii.96.