The corpus record — Sanskrit

rudrān

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Where it lives

Bhagavad Gita 1 · 1.16/10k

What it meant — Monier-Williams

1. رُدرَ-

rudra- m. Name eines Gottes; m. Plur. eine Götterklasse (RV +. auch Bezeichnung anderer ved. Götter, s. Wüst, Rudra 22. KEWA III 67, mit Lit.), zudra-vartani- die Bahn des Rudra wandelnd (RV [8,22,1.14 u.a.], RV-Kh; GeRV zu den Stellen, Thi, JAOS 80 [1960] 315a=KS 410a, Zeller, Zwillingsgötter 89). RUDH'? - rudhird- 453 ve-rudra- wohl ‘ohne Rudra oder die Rudras’ (RV 1,180,8; GeRV 1260, ad 8b), rudriya- zu Rudra (zu … — [Mayrhofer, s.v. rudra-, p. 480]

2. رُدرَ

rudra mfn. ( prob. ) crying, howling, roaring, dreadful, terrific, terrible, horrible (applied to the Aśvin s, Agni , Indra , Mitra , Varuṇa , and the spaśaḥ), RV. ; AV. ( accord. to others ‘red, shining, glittering’, fr. a √ rud or rudh connected with rudhira; others ‘strong, having or bestowing strength or power’, fr. a √ rud = vṛd, vṛdh; native authorities give also the following meanings, ‘driving away evil’; ‘running about and roaring’, fr. rudra = 2. dru; ‘praiseworthy, to be praised’; ‘a praiser, worshipper’ = stotṛ, Naigh. iii, 16 )

3. رُدرَ

rudra &c. See p. 883, col. 1 .

In the wild

rudrān Bhagavad Gita 11.6

Where it came from

Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) Treated in Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Worterbuch des Altindoarischen (EWAia) s.v. rudra (vol. 2, scan pp. 480-481; entry #3696).

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