[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925) › v1.c19.s9.18 # The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c19.s9.18 The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c19.s9.18 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9.18) It is also possible that in Umā, who appears at the very end of the Vedic period proper⁹ as the wife of Rudra, we have a goddess of the mountain, as she is given the epithet Haimavatī, and is recognized in the later mythology as the daughter of the mountain Himavant. On the other hand it must be remembered that, as Rudra is essentially a god of the mountains in the Vedic texts, it was only natural that his wife should be made out to be from the mountains, and that, therefore, we may have to do here simply with the same principle of setting a female beside the god which gives us Indrāṇī, and the other wives of the gods, though it is tempting to see in Umā a form of the mother goddess of the Dravidians. - [Previous: v1.c19.s9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9.17) - [Next: v1.c19.s9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9.19) - [Up: v1.c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c19.s9.18) · Pramāṇa