
Who is profound / He is so deep that to understand Him one has to go to absolute depth of divinityīeautiful bodied ( His beautiful body if of immense splendor) The ruler of Mount Kailash/ God of mount Kailashĭestroyer of Death/ Mahakaal is when the entire universe dies and He is the destroyer of that Mahakaalįair and resplendent / Fair like a snowy mountain (tusharadri = snowy mountain (tushar+adri), sankash = like, gauram = Fair/ white) Who is beyond the scope of voice, knowledge and words/ origin of Vani, Gyan, Words etc. Who is immeasurable like the sky, and Who dwells in the sky.Īlways in stateless Turiya – The fourth and most sublime state of existence Who is quality-less, beyond attributes/ origin of every (3) qualities, hence cannot be measured by standards of qualities Who is knowledge of the Brahman in reality and totality/ Who is origin of Brahma, the originator and of the Veda O Lord, O' Īśāna! I prostrate before thee See Sanskrit for details of pronunciation. These symbols and motifs related to the life and deeds of Rudra or Shiva. The body of the Rudrashtakam includes many qualities, attributes and motifs associated with Shiva, including the destruction of Tripura, the annihilation of Kamadeva etc. The Rudrashtakam narrates the qualities and deeds of Shiva. It reflects and portrays the poet's own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions about the theme or character in the Astakam. Each line is written in the Bhujangaprayāt chhand, containing four groups of light-heavy-heavy syllables (।ऽऽ ।ऽऽ ।ऽऽ ।ऽऽ).Īn astakam belong to the genre of lyric poetry, which tends to be short, extremely melodic, and contemplative. In Rudrashtakam, each stanza is written in Jagati meter, and hence contains 48 syllables per stanza. The term "Astakam" is derived from the Sanskrit word aṣṭan, meaning "eight". The Rudrashtakam is lucid and simple in style and plays an instrumental role in the Shaiva traditions. This is composed in BHUJANGA PRAYAT meters which consists of 12 letters in each four stages having only YAGANA four times in single verse consists of 48 letters. It is arguable that the distinction between Rudra and Shiva was already lost by the time of Tulsidas. The Ashtakam is in reverence to Rudra, though the context pertains to the Shiva, the post- Vedic transformation of Rudra. His pupil would be the bird ' Kaga-Bhusundi' in a next life, a devotee of Shri Rama and an excellent teller of the life story of Shri Rama.

He succeeded and asked also a second boon (devotion for himself).
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His main purpose was to set his pupil free from the curse of Shiva. The devotional hymn "Rudrashtakam" appears in the Uttara Kand of the celebrated Ram Charit Manas, where Lomash Rishi composed the hymn to propitiate Lord Shiva. Tulsidas composed this prayer in the late fifteenth century in Uttar Pradesh in India and created many other literary pieces including the magnum opus Ram Charit Manas. Shri Rudrashtakam ( Sanskrit: श्री रुद्राष्टकम्, Rudrāṣṭakam) is a Sanskrit composition in devotion of Rudra, composed by the Hindu Bhakti poet Tulsidas ( Sanskrit: तुलसीदास).
