Purana
Shiva Purana
The major Shaiva Purana; source of the Lingodbhava, the twelve jyotirlingas, and the great myths of Shiva.
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- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
As one fair objection runs, there is little in the actual content of, say, the Shiva Purana to justify calling it the literature of inertia, beyond the bare wish to rank one god's books above another's.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
In the Shiva Purana , in the section called the Vidyeshvara Samhita , Brahma and Vishnu fall to quarrelling over which of them is supreme.
- 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…