"That swarm of ants that I observed, each one following the one ahead, have every one been Indra in the world of the gods by virtue of their own past action. And now, by virtue of their deeds done in the past, they have gradually fallen to the state of ants."
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"Indra and the Ants", reported in Cornelia Dimmitt, Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas (1978), p. 321
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