Puranam By Saint Manikka vasagar Translated by P.R.Ramachander (Manikka Vasagar was one of the four great Nayanmars (saivite saints ) of Tamil Nadu, who was great poet as well as great contributor to the SAivite philosophy. His collection of works is called Thiruvachakam. Due to the sweetness and greatness of this work, there is a proverb in Tamil which says, “Thiruvasagathukku urugaar, yebbasagathukkum Urugaar”( One who does not melt for Thiruvasagam will not melt for any literary work). The first prayer in THiruvasagam is the Puranam. It was composed in a temple called Thiruperum thurai Unlike suggested by the name it is not the epic dealing with the stories of Shiva. In tamil Jeeva (the individual soul is called “ Cheevaa”. According to the philosophy of Saivism, the jeeva is prevented from the realization of God by three impurities (Anava(pride),, and Maya) and only approach to Shiva can remove these impurities.

This Shiva puranam attempts to portray the jeeva towards Shiva and is aptly called “Shiva Puranam”, The famous English translation of Shiva Puranam by Mr.G.U.Pope (fondly called Popeiyer) is available in G.U.Pope’s translation. There is also great commentary in Tamil Which includes the Tamil text of this work in and the audio is Audio by Sulamangalam sisters is available in ) Namasivaya vaazhga, Nadan thal vazzhga, Imai podum yennenjil neengaadhan thal vazhga. Kokazhi aanda guru mani than thaal vaazhga, Agamam aagi nindru annippan vaazhga, Yekan anegan iraivan Vaazhga(1-5) Long live Namasivaya, Long live the holy feet of our Lord, Long live the feet of him who does not move away from my mind even for a second. Long live the feet of my Guru who ruled over Thiruvavaduthurai(Thiruperum thurai?)*, Long live the feet of him who became holy books and comes near us, Long live the feet of the God who was one but appeared as many.

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*Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu.

• • • The Shiva Purana is one of the eighteen genre of texts in, and part of the literature corpus. It primarily centers around the Hindu god and goddess, but references and reveres all gods. The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve (books), however the Purana adds that it was abridged by sage Vyasa before being taught to Romaharshana.

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 region of the with no books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section). The two versions that include books, title some of the books same and others differently. 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 oldest manuscript of surviving texts was likely composed, estimates, around 10th- to 11th-century CE.

Some chapters of currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed after the 14th-century. The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered,, relationship between gods, ethics,, Tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE. The oldest surviving chapters of the Shiva Purana have significant philosophy, which is mixed in with theistic elements of.

In the 19th- and 20th-century, the was sometimes titled as Shiva Purana, and sometimes proposed as a part of the complete Shiva Purana. Contents • • • • • • Date [ ] The date and authors of Shiva Purana are unknown. No authentic data is available. Scholars such as Klostermaier as well as Hazra estimate that the oldest chapters in the surviving manuscript were likely composed around the 10- to 11th-centuries CE, which has not stood the test of carbon dating technology hence on that part we must rely on the text itself which tells when it was composed.