Sakka / Shakra
(शक्र)Literal Meaning
King of the gods
Etymology & Sanskrit Root
Pali 'Sakka', Sanskrit 'Shakra', an epithet of Indra, 'the mighty one.'
Spiritual Insight & Context
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.