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shrI kasthUri rangan quoted from the sanatkumaara samhita

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> Sanatkumara samhita 10.23-29 are the mantras recommended for the 
> worship of rudra. The vidhi is given as addition of pranava in the 
> beginning & namaH in the end for japa of rudra mantras. These 
> mantras are from maitrayaniya samhita, and a variation of these 
> occur in mahanarayana upanishad. If possible, I'll gather more 
> consolidated references.
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thanks for quoting this. 

The following is my opinion only, and is not taken from any 
authoritative sources.

On a preliminary look at it (from the version present on 
granthamandira.org), it looks like the first portion of the 10th 
chapter is a chapter on how to make different maalaas, and how to 
purify the maalaas. The 10.23 - 10.29 you quoted above seems to be 
mantras that are ordained to purify the mala.

There are m number of mantras/other things that our sruthis & 
smrithis prescribe to purify n number of things. These
purification rituals do not constitute any "worship" per se.

I also wonder whether there are different versions of the 
sanatkumaara samhitha.

I am not translating the slOkhAs given my inadequate knowledge of 
samskrit. I will request a learned samskrit scholar I know of to 
translate that for us.

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan,
varadhan




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