Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3965545-20161228130925/@comment-25122992-20170101112036

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: so does that means Ashura already used kurama for the fight, and indra somehow used the other 8?? It doesn't necessary have to be so. Naruto's/Sasuke's greatest clash with these avatars is an allusion to the clash between Hindu deities, Asuras and Indra, and even the appearance of the avatars are very similar to them (Asuras are depicted with three faces and six arms and Indra is a god of lighting with lighting arrows). So there avatars are named after the deities rather than Indra/Asura characters in the series, though these characters and their feud also clearly comes from these deities as well. Although we still don't know the actual nature of Asura's avatar he used against Indra in the past (if it's also Kurama avatar as Naruto's one or something different), at least we can be sure that Indra didn't use the Tailed Beasts, since he fought Asura and his avatar with regular Perfect Susanoo.