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RUDRA (probably from the root rud, " to howl," hence " the howler ")

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 818 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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