The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1920 page)

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A consort of the Hindu god
K
a
, one of the
gop
s
. It is only in secular poetic sources, not religious ones, that R
dhik
(later mostly R
dh
) was first described as K
a's favourite gop
and mistress. Apart from conventional episodes dealing with infatuation, love-making, jealousy, and quarrels of the lovers, nothing further is said about R
dh
till 12th cent. CE. The
pur
as

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