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Rudra

American  
[rood-ruh] / ˈrʊd rə /

noun

Vedic Mythology.
  1. father of the storm gods and controller of the powers of nature.


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Rudra Bahadur Kami returned to Nepal through a back door of Kathmandu airport in a battered coffin after working for more than a decade in Saudi Arabia to feed his family back home.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Puchu hopes for a brighter future for his son, Rudra, five, - a future in uniform as a policeman.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

But it will likely take decades or more for India to completely wean itself off Russian military hardware, said Rudra Chaudhuri, director of Carnegie India, the New Delhi arm of the international think tank.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

Rudra Sondhi, a freshman at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, started using his grandmother’s digital camera because it seemed like a happy medium between film cameras and smartphones.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

Maycereni, the name of the third person of the Indian trinity given in the text, does not appear in this work, and may be an epithet of Rudra.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte