TYPE: Tutelary and weather god
ORIGIN: Kafir [Afghanistan]
INFORMATION: The brother of Gish and father of Disani and Pano. Probably derived from the more widely recognized Aryan god Indra. Indr is known chiefly from the Waigal and Prasun areas of the southern Hindukush. It is generally assumed that he was ousted from major importance by the god Imra. Indr is also a god of wine who owns substantial vineyards and is associated in south Nuristan with wine rituals (the Annals of Alexander the Great suggest that he met with wine-drinking "worshipers of Dionysos" in the Hindukush).
In the Ashkun region of southwestern Kafiristan, a famous vineyard near the village of Wamais is sacred to Indr. Also Inder.