The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c17.s10.4

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¹ TS. iv. 5. 5; cf. iv. 5. 1; Arbman (*Rudra*, pp. 274 ff.) insists that red and blue-black are connected with the dead and thus prove this as a primitive feature of Rudra’s character, but it is clear that primarily he is merely bright (RV. viii. 29. 5) and brown rather than red, and the epithets are best explained as referring to fire, Jacobi, ERE. ii. 803 f.