Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3965545-20161228130925/@comment-1512913-20170101111635

There's no proof of that, the names might be just a reference or tribute to them being their incarnates. Did Indra also use Indra's Arrow because it's named after him?

Although it's still possible, I wouldn't put it past Kishi to use a 'history is destined to repeat itself' plot device.

But Indra didn't have Rinnegan to our best knowledge, so how would have he absorbed chakras of all the Tailed Beasts in any effective way? Even if there is at least some truth to this, in the least that Asura was a jinchuuriki, one thing to remember is that the Tailed Beasts were tiny back then, cute.