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Rudra

noun
1.
Father of the Hindu storm gods Marut; controller of nature; sometimes identified with Siva.





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"Rudra" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Maruts with Indra, the great Nature god, has led some scholars to regard them as personifications of a special manifestation of Nature, as Wind-gods. Professor von Schroeder points out that their father was the god Rudra, later known as Civa, the god of departed souls, and of fruitfulness, i.e., a Chthonian deity, and suggests that the Maruts represent the "in Wind und Sturm dahinjagende Seelenschar."[7] He points out ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston


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