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==Ekadash Rudra == Rig Veda treats the deities of creation like Maruts, Brahaspati, Rudra, Mitra, Varuna, Soma, Yama, and other Gods giving prominence to Agni, Indra, and Aditya.

The eleven divine forms of Rudra are Shambhu, Pinaki, Girisha, Sthanu, Bharg, Sadashiva, Shiva, Hara, Sarva, Kapali, and Bhava.

Rudra section of the Krishna Yajus Samhita dealt on the fierce god Rudra both beneficent and destructive, who dazzles and shoots his arrows, who glares with a thousand eyes and has hundreds of quivers full of arrows. When god Rudra marks one out from his station above, nothing done but to prostrate and to keep prostrate with outstretched arms as low as the earth will permit, until his blazing eyes turned elsewhere.

The Rudra section, therefore, begins with prostrations, and prostrations run right through the long chapter, as prostration is the sole and only means of propitiating this brilliant deity who from his vantage ground on high, deals out instantaneous death.

Sri Rudram is devoted to lord Shiva for all round benefits and removing all difficulties. Sri Rudram is in two parts. The first part, chapter 16 of the Yajurveda, is Namakam because of the repeated use of the word “Namo” in it. Namakam describes the name or epithets of Rudra, which represent his aspects.'' ''

The second part, chapter 18 of the Yajurveda, is Chamakam repeated use of the words “Chame” asks for the fulfilment of wishes. Each part consists of eleven hymns each has its own purpose and meaning 

Rudra is Triambaka having three wives, the high-throne Prisni, the alto-clouds next in rank, and the stratus-clouds constituting his inferior wife. They all produce Rudras, but Prisni's children are the perfect jewels. It understood that the ruddy chest of the Maruts is the front of Mars that threatens and commands, and that Mars and the Maruts are identical.