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Rudra
Rudra Rudra is one of the most charged names in the Sanskrit tradition, yoking destruction and healing in a single figure. Characters bearing this name tend toward intensity and volatility — forces of nature rather than social beings, who carry within them the capacity for both catastrophic rage and profound mercy.
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