Purana
Linga Purana
A Shaiva Purana centred on the linga and the arising of the pillar of light.
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- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The Puranas (Sanskrit purana, 'old' or 'ancient tale') are a large class of Hindu scriptures that retell creation, the cosmic ages, divine and royal genealogies,…
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
A jyotirlinga (jyotis, light, plus linga, the aniconic emblem of Shiva) is a linga of light, held by the tradition to be svayambhu, self-manifest, rather than…
- Who is Shiva? Deities
Shiva is the supreme reality for the Shaiva traditions, and, by one widely cited estimate, for something like a quarter of all Hindus, though such figures are rough…