Rudra
Rudra
Rudra is a name used for more than one devatā and place in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
Devatās
- Śiva: Bhagavān Śiva, who bears Rudra as a name; the Brahma Purāṇa tells of his birth from Brahmā‘s rosha and of his divine bow Ajagava in the war over Tārā. Skanda Purāṇa; Śiva Purāṇa; Liṅga Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Vāmana Purāṇa; Agni Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Brahma Purāṇa
- Ekādaśa Rudra: the eleven Rudras, eleven forms of Śiva, born to Kaśyapa and Surabhi to defend the devas, and born as the vānaras who served Śrī Rāma. Śiva Purāṇa, Śatarudra Saṃhitā, Chapter 18; Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa, Manohara Kāṇḍa, Sarga 16; Vāmana Purāṇa; Agni Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 1, 3, 5, 39, 55, 181, 203, 210, 213, 220, 229; Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapters 5, 35, 40, 53, 104
- Kālāgni Rudra: the fire of time in the form of Rudra, the teacher of the Agni Purāṇa, and in the Brahma Purāṇa the form in which Bhagavān Vishṇu withdraws the worlds at pralaya. Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 1, 84, 368, 383; Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 133; Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapters 2–3; Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 21, 232, 241; Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 4
Places
- Rudratīrtha (Gautamī): the tīrtha on the Gautamī where Rudra, Bhagavān Śiva, stood when he cut off the fifth head of Brahmā. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 43
- Rudratīrtha: a holy tīrtha named in the later part of the Brahma Purāṇa’s great list of the tīrthas and kshetras of the earth. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 25