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The Religions of India

CHAPTER XI
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8.
27.).[14] But other later divinities than those of the earliest Veda, such as Wealth (Kubera), and Dharma, have crept into the ritual.

With the Vedic gods appears as a divinity in Kh[=a]d.

1.5.31 the love-god K[=a]ma, of the Atharvan; while on the other hand Rudra the beast-lord (Pacupati, Lord of Cattle), the 'kindly' Civa, appears as 'great god,' whose names are Cankara, Prish[=a]taka, Bhava, Carva, Ugra, Ic[=a]na (Lord); who has all names and greatness, while he yet is described in the words of the older text as 'the god that desires to kill' ([=A]cv.
2.2.

2; 4.8.9, 19,[15] 29, 32; _[=A]it.


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