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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 818 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUDRA (probably from the See also:root rud, " to howl," hence " the See also:howler ")  , in See also:Hindu Vedic See also:mythology, a See also:storm See also:god, and See also:father of the Maruts who are frequently called Rudriyas . He shoots tempests at the See also:earth, but is not essentially a malevolent deity, being invoked as a See also:protector of See also:cattle . In the Atharvaveda he is See also:lord of See also:life and See also:death, and in later See also:Hinduism one of the Hindu trinity, the god See also:Siva . See A . A . See also:Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (See also:Strassburg, 1897) ; See also:Sir See also:William See also:Muir, See also:Original See also:Sanskrit Texts, iv . 299-420 .

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