Wherever in the genuine parts of the poem mythology is in play, it is not Viṣṇu, but god Indra who is considered as the highest god in the Veda. For the two books I and VII it is also typical that in them, as we have seen, the thread of the narration often snaps and numerous Brahmanic myths and legends were interpolated as in the case of the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas. Such things occur only at very few places in the Books II and VI.