10 Facts About Shiva Purana

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

Some chapters of currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed after the 14th-century.

Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, relationship between Gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics.

The oldest surviving chapters of the Shiva Purana have significant Advaita Vedanta philosophy, which is mixed in with theistic elements of bhakti.

Certain books and chapters in currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed later, some after the 14th-century.

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Similarly, Shiva Purana is called the physician of the world, by those who know the nature of the principles.

Shiva Purana is the great atman, because he is the atman of all, he is forever endowed with the great qualities, there is no greater atman than him.

Second manuscript of Shiva Purana published in 1906, reprinted in 1965, by the Pandita Pustakalaya, Kashi consists of seven s:.

The chapters of this shared samhita in different versions of the Shiva Purana includes a description of India's geography and rivers from north and south India so often and evenly that Hazra states it is difficult to gauge if this part was composed in north or south India.

Shiva Purana dedicates chapters to Shaiva-Advaita philosophy, like Linga Purana and other Shaivism-related Puranas, advocating it as a system for Salvation.