Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.32
॥
Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् ये चैकादश रुद्राः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān ye caikādaśa rudrāḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
ये च एकादश रुद्राःye ca ekādaśa rudrāḥand which are the eleven Rudras; and those that are the eleven Rudras
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the eleven Rudras. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The eighteenth name is the eleven Rudras.
Rudra means “the roaring” or “the red”; in the Ṛg-veda he is the dread deity of the storm and at the same time a healer, from whom remedies are asked.
The eleven Rudras the Bṛhadāraṇyaka explains thus: the ten breaths in a man and the eleventh — himself; when they depart, those who remain weep, and hence they are called “the ones who make weep”.
This explanation is worth remembering, because it sets the Rudras not in heaven but in the body.
Note that the twelfth paragraph of the first Upaniṣad of this book gave a whole paragraph to the names of Rudra, taken from the Mahānārāyaṇa and the Śvetāśvatara. The litany adds eleven more to them.