NOUN
- father of the Hindu storm gods Marut; controller of nature; sometimes identified with Siva
How To Use Rudra In A Sentence
- The trees bearing rudraksha fruits are found in the Himalayan region, Nepal, and also in Indonesia and belong to the Eleo Carpus Ganitras type of plants.
- They all had rudrakshas, tulasi-malas, jasmine flowers tied up in their hair, and they were all praying, doing meditation and chanting mantras.
- As for the more spiritually inclined, there are malas made of rudraksh, tulasi beads and lotus seeds.
- There we offered prayers for a successful pilgrimage and got our rudraksha rosaries sanctified by the priest.
- During that powerful event, Sri Rudram, a much-revered propitiatory hymn to Lord Siva from the Yajur Veda, was chanted in unison 1,331 times.
- The Puranic cosmogony also contains stories of the dissolution of existence in the cosmic fire that emerges from the breath of Rudra, or iva.
