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श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. Our own translation, verse by verse.
12,235 verses across 229 adhyāyas, each one set out in the received Sanskrit with a transliteration beside our own English and Hindi. A doubtful reading is printed as it stands and flagged, never quietly corrected. 436 claims elsewhere on this site stand on one of its verses.
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7 adhyāyas
माहात्म्य
The Glory of the Text
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25 adhyāyas
विद्येश्वरसंहिता
The Saṃhitā of Vidyeśvara
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20 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सृष्टिखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa
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43 adhyāyas
रुद्रसंहिता — सतीखण्ड
The Saṃhitā of Rudra · Satī Khaṇḍa
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- Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa श्रीशिवमहापुराण 229 chapters In progress
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- Tantrasāra तन्त्रसारः Releasing 28 Sep
- Bṛhat Tantrasāra बृहत्तन्त्रसारः Releasing 1 Oct
- Mantra Mahārṇava मन्त्रमहार्णवः Releasing 1 Oct
- Viśvakarma-prakāśa श्रीविश्वकर्मप्रकाशः Releasing 1 Nov
The guides
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- Amavasya Sadhana: What to Do on the New-Moon Tithi Every practice recommended for the Amavasya tithi — the daily core, pitru karma, protection from abhichar, the anushthan...
- Beginning Sadhana: How a New Sadhaka Should Start Where a completely new sadhaka should actually start — the three-tier structure of aarambhik, mukhya and anga sadhana, t...
- Bhadrapada Maas Sadhanas: The Month's Full Practice Calendar Every practice recommended for the Bhadrapada month — Ganesh Chaturthi and the ten-day Vinayak Navratri, the Krishna Jan...
- Bhairav Sadhana: The Definitive Guide Everything a householder actually needs in order to worship Bhairava — who the forms are and which one belongs in a home...
- Durga Sadhana: The Full Navratri Practice Guide Every practice recommended for Durga sadhana — the daily Navdurga sequence through Navratri, the 32-namavali that needs...
- Ganesh Sadhana: The Full Practice Guide Every practice recommended for Ganpati sadhana — why he comes first, the Sankatnashan and Ashtavinayak paths every sadha...
- Navratri Sadhana: The Complete Nine-Night Practice Guide Everything the discourses actually prescribe for the nine nights — when the kalash goes up, which chapter of Saptashati...
- Purnima Sadhana: What to Do on the Full-Moon Tithi Every practice recommended for the Purnima tithi — the daily core, the Purnima-to-Purnima cycles, each named full moon o...
- Tirtha Sadhana: The Definitive Guide to Sacred Places for Practice Where sadhana actually works, and why — the Shiva Purana's own tenfold ladder of places from a clean house up to a mount...
- Vidyeshwar Samhita: The Definitive Guide The first of the Shiv Mahapuran's seven Samhitas, set out chapter by chapter — why Shiva alone is worshipped in both lin...
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Top Questions Asked Across Sources
Notes our editors flagged as conceptually noteworthy while seeding the corpus. The set rotates once a day, not on every page load, so a note you find here is still here this evening.
Learn tantra vidya only under a qualified guru
The speaker says his aim is not to spread confusion but to say: become awake. If you act on your own whim without understanding, the adverse effect will not be borne by the YouTube babaji or the Facebook babaji who wrote it up — you and your family will bear it. His channel is dedicated to grihasthas, not to tantriks; if you want to learn tantra vidya and gain siddhis, do it in the company and guidance of a qualified guru. He keeps to what a common grihastha can do, for the welfare of Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra alike, women and men alike; his anushthans are mostly paushtik, with only one or two shatkarma-related (tantra kaat, marriage), and the prayer behind them is Bhagavati's: freedom from all obstacles and fullness of wealth, grain, sons and grandsons.
Is any line of the Hanuman Chalisa a later addition?
Responding to a viewer who says four lines have wrongly crept into the Hanuman Chalisa and that he will ask someone to have them corrected, the speaker agrees. Going by the view of those in the Shankaracharya parampara who state proper vidhi-vidhan, he holds that this pada was composed by someone without the standing to do so, says he will neither accept it nor let it be accepted, and adds that he acknowledges no authority above Tulsidas on the matter.
The shaktis are fundamentally one, and opened up, every link meets in a single place: Kaushiki presides over the Bhadrapada Amavasya.
The shaktis are fundamentally one; but when you open the matter up and look, all these things, all these links, come and meet at a single place. Bhagavati Kaushiki is the chief presiding upasika shakti of the Amavasya of Bhadrapada.
What is Chandika Kopa, and when does a mistake in worship invite it?
Chandika Kopa isn't invoked by innocent mistakes — it's invoked by persisting in a known error after correct knowledge was already available.
Do other religious traditions have a doctrine of ancestral progress and rebirth?
The speaker holds that they do not. He states that liberation requires coming to Sanatana Dharma, that rebirth and the ancestral doctrine exist nowhere else, and that observances such as Halloween or Shab-e-Barat do not claim to grant the dead progress.
What is the Mahabhairav mool mantra and how many times should it be done?
The speaker says a Mahabhairav mantra, the mool mantra, was given earlier and every householder should do it without hesitation. It is available on the channel. Everyone should do that sadhana at least three times — whether an 11-day or a 21-day form — and should do a very large amount of japa of that mantra. All the Bhairavs are contained in it, but at its root chiefly is Batuk Bhairav.
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Today’s Featured Terms
Terms referenced by at least 3 notes across the corpus, rotating daily.
siddhi
सिद्धिAttainment or spiritual accomplishment through sustained practice, often pursued at a specific tirtha.
Mahishasura Mardini
महिषासुरमर्दिनीThe ten-armed form of Durga who slays the buffalo-demon Mahishasura — the form specifically worshipped during Shardiya Navratri, and a fierce, tantric idol not suited for casual home installation.
Hanuman Chalisa
हनुमान चालीसाThe forty-verse devotional hymn to Hanuman.
Digpala
दिग्पालOne of the ten guardian deities presiding over the cardinal and intercardinal directions — mapped, along with the nine Grahas, onto the finger phalanges during Kara-mala japa.
Yantra
यंत्रA geometric diagram encoding a deity's energy, kept at home or worn.
Dattatreya Mala Mantra
दत्तात्रेय माला मंत्रThe rosary mantra recited for Lord Dattatreya.
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