without attributes/beyond attributes, the Vedas also sanction the worship of reality with forms, called Saguna Upasna. Though the Upanishads define the Reality Brahman as Nirguna. Please my article on this and more posts on Shiva. Shiva is mentioned in Sri Rudram and is kept as a secret in the Rudram. Shiva is not directly mentioned in the Vedas ,nor are there any hymns addressed directly to Him. Some authors associate the name with the Tamil word śivappu meaning “red”, noting that Shiva is linked to the Sun ( śivan, “the Red one”, in Tamil) and that Rudra is also called Babhru (brown, or red) in the Rigveda. The Vishnu sahasranama interprets Shiva to have multiple meanings: “The Pure One”, and “the One who is not affected by three Guṇas of Prakṛti (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas)”. The Sanskrit word śaiva means “relating to the god Shiva”, and this term is the Sanskrit name both for one of the principal sects of Hinduism and for a member of that sect. It is used as an adjective to characterize certain beliefs and practices, such as Shaivism. Sharma presents another etymology with the Sanskrit root śarv–, which means “to injure” or “to kill”, interprets the name to connote “one who can kill the forces of darkness”.
The word Shiva is used as an adjective in the Rig Veda, as an epithet for several Rigvedic deities, including Rudra. The term Shiva also connotes “liberation, final emancipation” and “the auspicious one”, this adjective sense of usage is addressed to many deities in Vedic layers of literature. The term evolved from the Vedic Rudra-Shiva to the noun Shiva in the Epics and the Puranas, as an auspicious deity who is the “creator, reproducer and dissolver”. The Sanskrit word “Śiva” (Devanagari: शिव, transliterated as Shiva or Siva) means, states Monier Williams, “auspicious, propitious, gracious, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly”.The roots of Śiva in folk etymology is “śī” which means “in whom all things lie, pervasiveness” and vawhich means “embodiment of grace”.
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