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Prajāpati

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 437 words | Copyright

Prajāpati (Skt., ‘Lord of creatures/creation’). A conceptual development in the late Vedic period of Hinduism drawing together the many manifested forces of nature into a single source of creation, and often, therefore, made synonymous with Indra and Sāvitrī. In relation to the thirty-three gods of the classical system, Prajāpati was reckoned the thirty-fourth, embracing and including the others.

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