User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-31137559-20170327215654/@comment-73.160.58.215-20170329175635

@UltPawn Nowhere has it actually said that Indra was evil. Neither is he necessarily a battle maniac. He just has a great need/desire to defeat Shiva and thus has been working towards that end, using whatever means are necessary to do so.

@Crimson the 1st anon's original point was that Indra isn't the hindu god of war. Unless Ishibumi somewhere indicated otherwise in the novels, this still holds true since he generally tries to keep the familial relationships and the roles of mythological characters the same as in their actual myths wherever possible.