Upanishads · Atharvaśiras 32
॥
Devanāgarī
यो वै रुद्रः स भगवान् यच् च सर्वं तस्मै वै नमोनमः
Transliteration (IAST)
yo vai rudraḥ sa bhagavān yac ca sarvaṃ tasmai vai namonamaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यः वै रुद्रःyaḥ vai rudraḥhe who is Rudra; the one who is Rudra
सः भगवान्saḥ bhagavānhe is the Lord; he indeed is the Bhagavān
यत् च सर्वम्yat ca sarvamand which is the all; and that which is sarvam
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be homage and homage; to him obeisance and obeisance
Translation
He who is Rudra — He is the Lord, and He is the all. To Him be homage and homage.
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The last name of the litany: sarvam, “the all”.
Thirty-one sections in a row enumerated one by one — Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Skanda, Indra, fire, wind, the lights, the worlds, the elements, time, death, the colours. And now it is said simply: all.
That is the right end for such a roll. To continue would be to pretend the list could be complete.
Note that the name sarva belongs to Śiva himself: so he is called in the Śatarudriya, and tradition counts it one of his eight names.
The last word of the litany, then, is at once the sum and one more proper name.
The next section will change the whole structure of the speech: the gods will cease speaking about Him and address Him as “thou”.