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Synopsis The nagging riddle of the Vedic Rudra-Siva as a divine figurehead, who has both the benevolent as well as the malevolent aspects at the same time, persists on. Assignment of contradictory epithets and attributes to divine beings is nothing unusual in the Indian pattern of thought. The two other supposedly more benign gods of the holy trinity of the Indian pantheon, namely Brahma and Visnu in their various forms, appearances and incarnations can, for the well being of mankind, be as destructive as Rudra. Again, when the three divine figureheads of the holy trinity merge into the Absolute One whole, all their attributes – contradictory or otherwise – completely disappear into the region of the indescribable.