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TIL that the common misconception that 'The Hindu Pantheon is believed to have 330 million gods' arose from a simple misinterpretation of an old Sanskrit scripture, For the words 'trayastrimsa koti' which was confused between '33 supreme souls' and '33 crores' (330 million)

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