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KUBERA (or KuVERA)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUBERA (or KuVERA) , in See also:Hindu See also:mythology, the See also:god of See also:wealth. Originally he appears as See also:king of the See also:powers of evil, a See also:kind of See also:Pluto. His See also:home is Alaka in See also:Mount Kailasa, and his See also:garden, the See also:world's treasure-See also:house, is Chaitraratha, on Mount Mandara. Kubera is See also:half-See also:brother to the demon Ravana, and was driven from See also:Ceylon by the latter.

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