Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 74
The Exposition of the Maheśa Mantra
Mahēśa-mantra-prakāśana
क्षुधा स्यात्सप्तमी रुद्ररूपेभ्यः कथिता तृषा । अष्टमी कथिता एताध्रुवाद्या नमसान्विताः ॥ ७४ ॥
kṣudhā syātsaptamī rudrarūpebhyaḥ kathitā tṛṣā | aṣṭamī kathitā etādhruvādyā namasānvitāḥ || 74 ||
Unter den Gestalten Rudras heißt die siebte Kṣudhā (Hunger), und die achte wird als Tṛṣā (Durst) verkündet. Diese—beginnend mit Dhruvā und den übrigen—sind zusammen mit dem Gruß der Verehrung „namaḥ“ zu rezitieren.
Sanatkumara (teaching Narada in a technical enumeration context)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
It frames even primal forces like hunger and thirst as Rudra’s manifestations, training the practitioner to see divinity pervading bodily experience and to sanctify it through mantra-salutation (namaḥ).
By prescribing ‘namaḥ’ with each name, it turns an enumerative teaching into an act of reverence—devotion expressed as repeated surrender and recognition of the Lord’s presence in all states.
It reflects a technical, list-based ritual method—name-enumeration with a fixed mantra particle (‘namaḥ’)—used in disciplined recitation and nyāsa-like applications common to Vedic liturgical practice.