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The Gods Agni, Brhaspati,etc., are all revered as kavis in Rig Veda.
The inner meaning of the Vedas Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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(Zend, Azhi), while the kavis, or priests, are attacked by him as deceivers and liars.
A Comparative View of Religions Johannes Henricus Scholten
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Other than for historical documentation, reproducing the kavis in whole did not add more to the novel.
Kottu 2009
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You are like one of those kavis (poets) who walk around looking up at the sky and thinking these abstract useless ideas.
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You are like one of those kavis (poets) who walk around looking up at the sky and thinking these abstract useless ideas.
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Slavic ogni) was first brought to earth from heaven by a half-divine personality is (at least) Aryan, as Kuhn has shown.] [Footnote 23: Compare the _kavis_ and _ugijs_ (poets and priests) of the Veda with the evil spirits of the same names in the Avesta, like _daeva_ = _deva_.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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