[[pii-wrtraghnas]] # Verethragna - Iranian God of Victory > Zarathushtra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! ‘Who is the best-armed of the heavenly gods?’ Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It is Verethraghna, made by Ahura, O Spitama Zarathushtra!’. --Avesta [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verethragna Vedic Skt. Cognate: [Vṛtraghna](indic-vrtraghna.md) "Foe-Slayer" (i.e. [Indra](indra)).