22/05/2026
Rudra and Soma are paired together as a dual divinity across Vedas and are treated as one. Atharva Veda also pairs Bhava and Rudra as dual divinity AV11.2.15, similarly, all 8 aspects of Rudras become one concept, hence both Rudra and Soma are collective divinities, and they accompany each other, hence there is significant overlap between them until Sri Rudram TS4.5.8 definitively labels Rudra is Somā and this statement landed in Maitreya Upanishad 3.03.
“nama somāya ca rudrāya ca”