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The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, and relationship between gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. [10] [2] [11] The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium CE. [12]
The texts about the Tevaram trio are hagiographies full of mythistory where devotion leads to miracles, objects float upstream in a river, cruel Jains of the Chola kingdom repeatedly scheme to hurt and kill peaceful Shaiva saints in the Pandya kingdom, the Shiva devotees survive and thrive through divine interventions, magic cures people's ...
The Basava Puranam is a 13th-century Telugu epic poem written by Palkuriki Somanatha.It is a sacred text of the Lingayat tradition. The epic poem narrates the life story of philosopher and social reformer Basava (1134–1196 CE), also known as Basavaṇṇa, Basavēśvara, Basavēśa, and Basavarāja, the founder of Lingayat. [1]
He then explained the issuing of the twenty-eight books of the Shiva sect, from the centre mouth of Shiva; and the Rig, Sama, Yajur and Atharva Vedas, from the other four mouths. moreover, stating that the sense of the Vedas was difficult to be made out, and of no very great consequence, he told them the real secret was the duty of worshipping ...
Shiva is known as The Destroyer within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity which also includes Brahma and Vishnu. [7] [21] In the Shaivite tradition, Shiva is the Supreme Lord who creates, protects and transforms the universe.
Pashupata means "the way to Pashupati" whereas Pashupati is defined as "Lord of all creatures" in Yajurveda. It is one of the names of God Shiva. The text deals with topics such as Shiva Advaita (Shaiva nondualism) metaphysics, relations Shiva-brahman-Linga, yoga, recitations of om and of the hymn Shatarudriya from Yajurveda, [1] and others [2]
Basava was born in 1131 CE [1] in the town of Basavana Bagewadi in the northern part of Karnataka, to Maadhavarasa and Madalambike, a Kannada Orthodox Brahmin family [14] devoted to the Hindu deity Shiva. [10] [13] [15] He was named Basava, a Kannada form of the Sanskrit Vrishabha in honor of Nandi bull (carrier of Shiva) and the local Shaivism ...
As the legend goes, Thiruvasagam is the only work which is signed as well as written by Shiva in guise of a Tamil man when narrated by Manikkavasagar. The poet chased the writer but without success but the palm leaf manuscript had been seen inside the locked sanctum sanctorum of Thillai Nataraja with the Lord's signature.