Valmiki

“ Of Gautam, O thou best of men,
Like heaven itself, most honoured by
The Gods who dwell above the sky.
Here with Ahalyá at his side
His fervid task the ascetic plied.
Years fled in thousands. On a day
It chanced the saint had gone away,
When Town-destroying Indra came,
And saw the beauty of the dame.
The sage's form the God endued,
And thus the fair Ahalyá wooed:
'Love, sweet! should brook no dull delay
But snatch the moments when he may.'
She knew him in the saint's disguise,
Lord Indra of the Thousand Eyes,
But touched by love's unholy fire,
She yielded to the God's desire. ”

“ Whose figures like the As'vins [1] show,
Like children of the deathless Powers,
Come freely to these shades of ours, [2] --
How have they reached on foot this place?
What do they seek, and what their race? ”

“ Spent the long years in sternest rites.'
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↑ The Heavenly Twins.↑ Not banished from heaven as the inferior Gods and demigods sometimes were.↑ Kumarila says:' In the same manner, if it is said that Indra was the seducer of Ahalyá this does not imply that the God Indra committed such a crime, but Indra means the sun, and Ahalyá (from ahan and lí) the night ”