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Tales of the Gods
The most devout speech in the whole canto is delivered by the demon, in the middle of a war he is losing, asking to be struck.
Indra killed a priest, and the tradition never let him forget it.
The priest was Vishvarupa, also called Trisiras, the three-headed. He was the son of Tvashta, the divine artificer, the one who shapes forms, himself a deva.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.