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Hindu Ideas of Creation

In Our Time

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Shiva and the Universe

Vakhanita is about one of them in more detail, Gavin Flood, the deity called Shiva. What role does Shiva play? Yes, Shiva is a god who has five functions in the tradition. One is he creates the universe, he maintains it, he destroys it, and then he reveals himself,. So those are the five functions of Shiva. He generates it from pre-existing substance, and that emanates as the universe.

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