Rudra

Rudra is a Rigvedic god who is a form of Shiva.

Quotes

  • Worship thou Rudra for his great good favour: adore the Asura, God, with salutations.
    • Rigveda, V, 42, 1, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1870)
    • Variant translations:
      • With salutations the deva asura [Rudra] adore.
      • Kazanas, N. D. (2001). Indo-European deities and the Rgveda. Journal of Indoeuropean Studies, 29(3/4), 257-294.
  • The God Rudra is described to have possessed golden hair . . . yet we cannot make a Nordic viking out of him, as he had brown-hued skin-colour and golden-coloured arm. . . . Surely we cannot take the god Rudra as a specimen of race-miscegenation. . . . we beg to state that these allegories should be accepted as poetic fancies. They cannot be used as scientific data, for anthropological purpose.
    • B. Dutta in 1936, quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 3
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