The Development of Hindu Iconography c7.74

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c7.74

Siva's acts and aspects, 446-47; his Vedic counterpart—Rudra, 447; śiva (‘auspicious’) not used at first as the proper name of a god, 447; the word used as such in later Vedic literature, 447-48; Rudra as a Supreme god and his eight names, 448.

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