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व्रातपती (vrAtapatI)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Vrāta-patī, ‘lord of troops, is an epithet included in the
names of Rudra in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās, ^1 along with the
epithet Gaṇa-pati, ‘lord of groups.’ The exact sense is quite
uncertain, but the term may allude to the chief of a band of
robbers, as Zimmer^2 thinks.
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iv. 5, 4, 1
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xvii. 13
Maitrāyaṇī
Saṃhitā, ii. 9, 4
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
xvi. 25.
2) Altindisches Leben, 179.