Rudra Suktam - Powerful Vedic Chants About Lord Shiva - Pudukottai Mahalinga Sastri

Rudra Suktam - Powerful Vedic Chants About Lord Shiva - Pudukottai Mahalinga Sastri Rudra suktam Powerful Vedic Chants About Lord Shiva. Shiva, also known as Mahadeva (“Great God“), is one of the main deities of Hinduism. He is the supreme god within Shaivism, one of the three most influential denominations in contemporary Hinduism. He is one of the five primary forms of God in the Smarta tradition, and “the Destroyer“ or “the Transformer“ among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. Sri Rudram, to which the Chamakam is added by scriptural tradition, is a Hindu stotra, hymn dedicated to Rudra (an epithet of Shiva), taken from the Yajurveda. Shri Rudram is also known as Sri Rudraprasna, Śatarudrīya, and Rudradhyaya. The text is important in Saivism where Shiva is viewed as the Supreme God. The hymn is an early example of enumerating the names of a deity, a tradition developed extensively in the sahasranama literature of Hindu