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

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