The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen major texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily...

most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned. There are 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over...

the Hindu god Shiva. The word is a Sanskrit compound of jyotis ('radiance') and linga ('sign'). The Śiva Mahāpurāṇam (also Shiva Purana) mentions 64 original...

(mind-born son) of the creator god Brahma in the Puranas, Kamadeva's most popular myth is his incineration by Shiva's third eye while the latter was meditating...

the Shiva Purana, Brahma (the god of creation) and Vishnu (the god of preservation) had an argument over their supremacy. To settle the debate, Shiva took...

herself as Shiva in male form. Her half is Shiva. The Devi Bhagavata Purana describes Mahadevi in her form of Bhuvaneshvari. It is stated that Shiva worshipped...

Shiva and Parvati. His story finds mention in various Hindu texts, including the Matsya Purāṇa, the Kūrma Purāṇa, the Liṅga Purāṇa, the Padma Purana,...

feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other Shiva-related Puranas. The text has been an important historical record and influence...

shlokas (verses) from 16 – 32 of the chapter. In the Shiva Purana, after Ganesha's life was restored by Shiva, he was crowned as the leader of the ganas by the...

dedicated to Vishnu, as well as significant sections on Shiva and Shakti. The manuscripts of Padma Purana have survived into the modern era in numerous versions...

figure being praised. The Shiva Sahasranama is found in the Shiva Mahapurana, and many other scriptures, such as Linga Purana. There are at least eight...

practices, with sections that also praise Shiva, Shakti and other gods in a secular way. The Varaha Purana includes mythology, particularly of the Varaha...

Padma Purana. The Linga Purana, Shiva Purana, and Matsya Purana also detail the incident. Variations of the legend may be observed in later Puranas, each...

title Linga refers to the iconographical symbol for Shiva. The author(s) and date of the Linga Purana are unknown, and estimates place the original text...

eighteen Mahapuranas as per Shiva Purana of Hinduism. Composed in Sanskrit by Veda Vyasa, the text is considered a major purana for Devi worshippers (Shaktas)...

monarch and had a son named Visvamitra. In the Shiva Purana, when the Visvedevas arrive at Kailash, Shiva, requested by Vishnu, performed Vedic rites among...

few of them are detailed here: In the Shiva Purana, Ishana is described as a form or aspect of Shiva. The Purana states that Ishana bestows knowledge and...

temple also has several monasteries and samadhis of saints. As per the Shiva Purana, once Brahma (the Hindu God of creation) and Vishnu (the Hindu God of...

source from which she manifested herself. — Shiva Purana Uma Samhita Chapter 47, verse 15 Kalika Purana describes Kaushiki as the shakti that was born...

Linga Purana lists twenty-eight avatars of Shiva. In the Shiva Purana there is a distinctly Saivite version of a traditional avatar myth: Shiva brings...

According to Shiva Purana (10th-11th c. CE), the legend about the origin of the phallic form of Shiva is that some brahmin devotees of Shiva were highly...

Bhagavata Purana (in three volumes), the Markandeya Purana (one volume), the Brahma Purana (two volumes), the Vishnu Purana (one volume), the Shiva Purana (three...

Manthana is alluded briefly in the Kurma Purana, the Linga Purana, the Brahma Vaivarta Purana and the Shiva Purana. Variations in these narratives alter...

changed and they came to represent evil, vice and abuse of power. In Shiva Purana, they evolved into anti-gods and had to be destroyed because they threatened...

13,000 and 15,000 verses. The Padma Purana categorizes Matsya Purana as a Tamas Purana, or one that glorifies Shiva or Agni. Scholars consider the Sattva-Rajas-Tamas...

Shiva Purana in the chapter 1.2.10 (Shabda-Brahma Tanu) and in its Vidyeshvara samhita and in chapter 13 of the Vayaviya samhita of the Shiva Purana as...

Shiva. Shiva himself personally did not want to get into a violent mode. So, he took a strand of his hair and created Veerabhadra. The Padma Purana identifies...

(also known as tripundra) and other parts of the body. According to the Shiva Purana, the particles of ash which cling to the skin when Tripura is applied...

details of her story appear in the Puranas. Legends describe Sati as the favourite child of Daksha, who marries Shiva against her father's wishes. Later...

be auspicious for the recitation of the epic. The phalashruti of the Shiva Purana describes the benefits of worldly pleasure, the destruction of sins,...