ଶ୍ରୀ ରୁଦ୍ର ସ୍ତୁତିଃ

Ten verses given to Vyasa in the Kurma Purana, and the plainest Rudra hymn in this collection — no compounds to untie, no acrostic, no seed syllables, only salutation after salutation in the simplest available Sanskrit. Salutation to the god, the great one, god of gods, holder of the trident; to the three-eyed, to the one with three eyes, to the lord of yogins, salutation. Salutation to the god of gods, to Mahadeva the creator, to Shambhu, to the pillar, always, to Shiva the supreme self. Its usefulness is exactly its plainness: it is the hymn a reciter with no Sanskrit can carry, and it says all the essential things about Rudra without asking anything of the reader.