"The three-fold nature of Agni is a favourite topic with RV poets: his heads, bodies, stations, splendours and births are each three-fold. He is the earliest representative of the famous Indian trinity... ""
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in The Problem of Aryan Origins by K.D. Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi, 1992.
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Vaman Shivram Apte
Vaman Shivram Apte (1858 – 9 August 1892) was an Indian lexicographer and a professor of Sanskrit at Pune's Fergusson College.
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