| When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him. |
| As they fight on, kumara finds an opening, and slays Taraka with his lance, to the unbounded delight of the universe. |
| In Zoroastrianism and Persian mythology, Fereydun, and later Garshasp, slays Zahhak. |
| But the father, deaf to his cries, slays him in his house and prepares an evil feast. |
| He is driven back by Apollo, but slays the charioteer of Hector, Cebriones. |
| In the Avesta, Thraetaona slays the three-headed, three-mouthed, six-eyed dragon, Azi Dahaka. |
