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V
sudeva
.

Manifestation of
Vi
u
in power, worshipped as such by
Vai
avas
. It is often regarded, both within the Vai
ava tradition and by W. scholars, as a patronymic from Vasudeva, and thus another name for
K
a
, but this derivation is by no means certain. In Pur
ic texts, the word v
sudeva is often said to mean ‘dwelling in all things’, and as such may have been the name of a tribal god who became identified with K