Rudra-Shiva concept (Study)
by Maumita Bhattacharjee | 2018 | 54,352 words
This page relates ‘Atharvaveda-samhita (d): Benevolent characters of Rudra’ of the study on the Rudra-Shiva concept in the Vedic and Puranic literature, starting with the concept of God as contemplated by the Rishis (Vedic sages). These pages further deal with the aspects, legends, iconography and eulology of Rudra-Shiva as found in the Samhitas, Brahamanas, Aranyakas, Upanishads Sutras and Puranas. The final chapters deal with descriptions of his greatness, various incarnations and epithets.
4. Atharvaveda-saṃhitā (d): Benevolent characters of Rudra
Rudra is prayed in the morning for good intellect along with other gods.[1] In the 19th kāṇḍa of the Atharvaveda Saṃhitā, a mantra is found where Rudra is invoked along with the Rudras for the welfare of the devotees.[2] An earnest prayer is supplicated to Rudra to increase the cattle in several numbers by curing them from diseases.[3]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
prātaragniṃ prātarindraṃ havāmahe prātarmitrāvaruṇā prātaraśvinā | prātarbhagaṃ pūṣaṇaṃ brahmaṇaspatiṃ prātaḥ somamuta rudraṃ havāmahe || Ibid., 3.16.1
[2]:
śaṃ no rudra rudrebhirjalāṣaḥ śaṃ naṣṭvaṣṭā gnābhiriha śṛṇotu || Ibid., 19.10.6