[Advaita-l] Rudra as Everything in creation - Atharva shira Upanishad paraphrased in Lingapuranam

[V Subrahmanian]

Just to add to this post:

If the Linga Purana is held to be 'taamasic' then it follows by default
that the Atharva Shira Upanishad too is taamasic.  In order to ward off
this consequence, if it is held that the 'Rudra' of this Upanishad is to be
converted to another deity, then the same 'conversion' will have be done in
the Linga Puanam too to avoid its taamasic classification.

Vaidikas alone do not face such a predicament.

regards
subbu

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 5:10 PM V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the Linga Purana is a stuti of Lord Rudra by Deva-s:  The chapter has
> the unmistakable stamp of the Atharva Shira Upanishad, being an upabrhmaNa
> of the Upanishad:
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> https://sa.wikisource.org/s/4k3
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> देवा ऊचुः।।
> य एष भगवान् रुद्रो ब्रह्मविष्णुमहेश्वराः।।
> स्कंदश्चापि तथा चेन्द्रो भुवनानि चतुर्दश।।
> अश्विनौ ग्रहतारास्च नक्षत्राणि च खं दिशः।। १८.१ ।।
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> Bhagavan Rudra is the triad Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshvara, Skanda,
> Indra..etc.
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