शक्र
शाब्दिक अर्थ (Shabdartha)
King of the gods
व्युत्पत्ति एवं धातु मूल (Vyutpatti)
Pali 'Sakka', Sanskrit 'Shakra', an epithet of Indra, 'the mighty one.'
आध्यात्मिक भावार्थ व संदर्भ
Sakka appears throughout the Jataka tales as a divine witness who tests or rewards virtue, reflecting the Buddhist tradition's recasting of the Vedic god Indra as a moral agent within its own cosmology.