Rudras
group · 4 works · 15 mentions · 17 anchored passages
the Rudras · Rudra · the mountain-gods
in the texts
Rigveda
Class of storm/fierce gods, listed among the deities invoked for protection.
The Ādityas, Rudras, Vasus, of fair guidance, heaven and earth, the atmosphere — may the gods of one accord protect the sacrifice;
Dadhikrā, Agni, and the divine Uṣas, Bṛhaspati and the god Savitṛ, the two Aśvins, Mitra-Varuṇa, Bhaga, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Ādityas — these I invoke here.
With the prayer-created Marut troop, delighting together with the Rudras, drink your fill three times, O bull.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Class of storm deities who lift a net-pole in the war against the enemy army.
the Rudras a second, the Vasus a third — one is lifted by the Ādityas.
May Soma with the Rudras guard me from the southern direction.
May those who are malicious towards you and would assail you from the southern direction reach Soma together with the Rudras.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
A class of gods named alongside the Vasus and Ādityas as recipients of ritual satisfaction.
By performing the sacrifice that falls on the day of the ancestral rite, all the Vasus, Rudras, and Ādityas, // Ang_1.
Manusmṛti
A class of deities identified with the grandfather generation of the ancestors
283[273M] // They call the fathers Vasus, the grandfathers Rudras, and the great-grandfathers Ādityas;