Younger shatarudrIya - rudra namaskAra

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A very good acquaintance of mine sent me this some 3 years back.

I am surprised that it never occured to me to post it to the list.(Or did I..?)

 

Anyway the stotra with an English translation can be found in the files section

with the name Younger ShatarudrIya. It is almost like a shloka/paurANic version

of rudraM. Those like me who do not qualify(because of varNa dharma) for saying

rudraM can use this.

 

Here is an example shloka from the same:

 

" Those who dwell in rivers, in oceans, in mountains, in caves, in the roots of

trees, in cow-pens and in inaccessible forest; "

 

Just like the way the vedic rudraM is.

 

A note on this by the same person:

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" As for the rudra namaskAraM (that we term the younger shatarudriya) is seen

inserted in the shAnti parvan of many recensions of the mahAbhArata (including

that used by K Ganguli but not the " critical edition " ). It is also found in king

bhoja the paramAra's prakasha's colophon, the AV parishiShTha on the pAshupata

vrata. The R^ishi is said to be ajAnana dakSha prajapati It is missing in the

Neglein-Bolling published version though. I will send you the whole thing of

108+1 sholka a little later (I still need to translate it as Ganguli's is not

fully accurate). "