The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE. The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, relationship between gods, ethics, Yoga, Tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. Some chapters of currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed after the 14th-century. The oldest manuscript of surviving texts was likely composed, estimates Klaus Klostermaier, around 10th- to 11th-century CE. The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, was likely a living text, which was routinely edited, recast and revised over a long period of time.

The two versions that include books, title some of the books same and others differently. The surviving manuscripts exist in many different versions and content, with one major version with seven books (traced to South India), another with six books, while the third version traced to the medieval Bengal region of South Asia with no books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section). The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve samhitas (books), however the Purana adds that it was abridged by sage Vyasa before being taught to Romaharshana. It primarily centers around the Hindu god Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods. The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. Shiv Puran Hindi audio book on Pocket FM (Thanks to Navya Sree N) Introduction and Summary An English essay on Shiva Purana by R N Dandekar:.English translation of Shiva Purana Web-based, chapter-wise.Shiva Purana English Translation Part 4.Shiva Purana English Translation Part 3.Shiva Purana English Translation Part 2.Shiva Purana English Translation Part 1.English translation of Shiva Purana by JL Shastri, first published in 1950:.Shiva purana chapter 1 English translation This Purana was digitized through Sriranga Digital Technologies by Shri Yogananda, Professor of Mathematics, at Shri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore. Kannada translation of Shiva Purana, published in 1945 under the Jayachamarajendra Grantharatnamala Series, in 12 volumes.

English translation of Vidyeshwara Samhita of Shiva Purana along with the Sanskrit Shlokas.

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