History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.321
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.321
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last are designated Mahārudra and eleven Mahārudras are called Atirudra. The Rudra may take three forms viz. *japa* (muttering), *homa* (offering into Agni oblations to the accompaniment of the mantras), or *abhiṣeka* (sprinkling a person with the holy water over which the mantras have been recited). For reciting Rudrādhyāya the yajamāna, if he cannot himself recite it, may employ one brāhmaṇa and also for Ekādaśinī; but for Laghurudra and Mahārudra eleven brāhmaṇas are generally employed and for Atirudra eleven or 121. Ekādaśinī and Laghurudra are very much in vogue even now in Mahārāṣṭra. Rudrābhiṣeka is described in Baud. gṛhyaśeṣasūtra II. 18. 11-16.