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Rudra
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Rudra is a Rigvedic god who is a form of Shiva.
Quotes
Worship thou Rudra for his great good favour: adore the Asura, God, with salutations.
Rigveda, V, 42, 1, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870)
Variant translations:
With salutations the deva asura [Rudra] adore.
Kazanas, N. D. (2001). Indo-European deities and the Rgveda. Journal of Indoeuropean Studies, 29(3/4), 257-294.
The God Rudra is described to have possessed golden hair . . . yet we cannot make a Nordic viking out of him, as he had brown-hued skin-colour and golden-coloured arm. . . . Surely we cannot take the god Rudra as a specimen of race-miscegenation. . . . we beg to state that these allegories should be accepted as poetic fancies. They cannot be used as scientific data, for anthropological purpose.
B. Dutta in 1936, quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 3
External links
Category:Hindu deities