THE VEDIC DEITIES.
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most destructive weapon was a trident : with this he slew the foe who was obnoxious to his follower."
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SIVA SLAYING AN ASURA.
Though Siva's appearance is repeatedly described with considerable minuteness in the Purānas, and in pictures he is usually represented in the human form, it is in the form of the Linga that he is almost
