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श्रीशिवमहापुराण
Śrī Śiva Mahāpurāṇa
One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, given in the form Vyāsa received it from Sanatkumāra. We set out the received Sanskrit beside 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. 264 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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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.
Samput twice, root mantra once, Samput twice again — not once on either side
The Samput mantra is recited twice, then the root mantra once, then the Samput mantra twice again — only then does the next root mantra begin.
What should be done if an offence has been committed?
In such a state, he says, first of all there will be Shiva ji's pujan. The kavach and the rest will be given a fresh abhishek. Do at least five malas or eleven malas of the kshama mantra, and go on doing that japa for eleven days or twenty-one days, until there is peace of mind. Sins are quelled a great deal by havan and the like, so the more you practise as the Agam-ukta vidhan prescribes — and if there is havan, that is very good — the sooner you will be freed of that sin and dosha.
Which of the eight Ganpatis stands in which direction?
Mayuresh Ganpati in the east; Chintamani Ganpati in the agnikund; Mahaganapati in the south; Siddhi Vinayak Ganpati in the nairitya kona; Vighneshwar in the west; Girija Atmaj in the vayavya kona; Ballaleshwar Ganpati in the north; and Varad Vinayak Ganpati in the ishan kona.
How does a weak bhagya show in the janma kundali, and what does the kavach do about it?
The speaker says it often happens that our bhagya is weak — we are doing all the work but the expected result is not coming. On analysing the janma kundali it is found that the grahas of our bhagya are somewhere afflicted, in a nich rashi, or in a wrong bhava, so their effect is not being received rightly; or they are seized by Rahu and Ketu, and so their effect is not coming — this we call durbhagya. By wearing this kavach, he says, such graha-caused badhas and the kundali effect that is not being received begin to come to you as shubh effect.
Does performing a ritual or sacrifice (Bali) to destroy an enemy attract a karmic flaw (Dosha)?
Yes — whether an enemy is destroyed through a sacrificial offering, a targeted mantra resolve, or any other ritual means, it attracts a karmic flaw, since even Lord Ramachandra and Devraj Indra had to visit Mahakali to resolve the karmic consequences of killing enemies.
Sadashiva, Bhairav and Hanuman are worshipped alongside, not optionally
The speaker says that in all this pujan the worship of Bhagavan Sadashiva and of Bhairav and Hanuman ji is compulsory. Whether you light one lamp in their names, or do a path of the Hanuman Chalisa and so on, the Shiv Panchakshar Stotra, the Rudrashtak, or the names of Bhairav ji — this too must certainly be done. If you cannot do it in the morning, do it in the evening; do not leave these deities out.
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Today’s Featured Terms
Terms referenced by at least 3 notes across the corpus, rotating daily.
Bala Ganapati
बाल गणपतिGanapati worshipped as a child on the lap of Mother Parvati — pacifies ancestral/Masani afflictions, prevents miscarriages, and removes general domestic distress.
Tapo-bala
तपोबलThe spiritual merit and power accumulated through austerity and disciplined practice — an ancestor's Tapo-bala remains as subtle spiritual wealth their descendants can awaken and inherit.
Grahan Dosha
ग्रहण दोषAn astrological affliction occurring when Rahu or Ketu is conjunct with the Sun or Moon in the same house of a birth chart — an aspectual relationship also creates the Dosha, but same-house conjunction is far more potent.
Sadashiva
सदाशिवThe supreme, eternal form of Lord Shiva, credited in the Vishwasara Tantra as the personal composer of the Durga Ashtottara Shatanam Stotra.
Abhimantran
अभिमंत्रणThe ritual empowerment of an object or substance through mantra recitation.
Mahabhairav
महाभैरवA supreme, greater form of Lord Bhairava.
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