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Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
• Tue Jul 22 1997 - 11:43:25 PDT
Krishnamachari wrote:
>26. sarvah (sa as in Siva) - The Remover of all sins
>
> I am unable to get a good understanding of the interpretation >of this
>nAma. The word is derived from the root sr - to tear to pieces, to
>kill, to hurt. Neither Sri Bhattar nor Sri Sankara have given
>references to other srutis for this nAma. If any of you know of a
>context in the Gita or elsewhere that this name occurs or is referred
>to, please advise me since I would like to understand the significance
>of this nAma better.
It occurs in the rudraprashnaH,
namo bhavAya cha rudrAya cha _namaH sharvAya_ cha pashupataye cha ....
May be it occurs elsewhere also, like the shvetAshvatara upanishhad, but
I am not sure about this.
Ramakrishnan.
