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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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- 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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Darshan of the Kamakhya pind by the unmarried: what lineage gurus prescribe
The speaker says that if one is married, or has a guru's order to go to the Kamarupa Kamakhya area, one goes; and going to the area is not forbidden even for the unmarried. What is forbidden is touching the pind in which Bhagavati resides, and if the original darshan does happen, which he says mostly no longer does, it should not be done with that bhavana. He tells listeners to ask their Guru Parampara or Kulguru rather than today's people who say nothing happens: those with lineage gurus forbid it. Their rule is that the unmarried may go, but when they enter for darshan of the original peeth and pind they should not turn their eyes toward it; they should look at the feet or at the adorning articles, and not take darshan of the pind itself. Take shikhar darshan, do puja and pradakshina there, but keep the mool darshan for after marriage, or for when the guru orders it and one has risen above all such things. One can still stay in the area and do tapasya, he says.
In Hanuman ji's beej mantra, is it the makar or the gakar?
Asked whether Hanuman ji's mantra takes "hum" or the other syllable, the speaker says that if one is doing it by the tantrokta vidhi, it should generally be spoken in the makar — that is, "hum". Some forms will carry the gakar instead; which it is depends on the mantra.
Thirteen betel rolls to Kuber and five to Shiva, with the prayer kept to legitimate wealth
Offer 13 betel-leaf rolls to Kubera and 5 to Shiva, pray for legitimate wealth rather than acting on any dreams of buried treasure, then store the ritual items permanently in a wooden, sandalwood, or silver box and repeat the practice each Shravana.
How is Samputa done with the Hanuman Chalisa?
Use "Naase rog hare sab peera, japat nirantar Hanumat beera" as Samput, or "Bhoot pishaach nikat nahin aave, Mahaveer jab naam sunaave". One Samputa recitation is said to yield the fruit of a hundred recitations, and fear is destroyed.
When should the standing wick (Khadi Batti) be used?
The standing wick is for two situations: worship of a fierce (Ugra) deity form, and a vow-bound ritual using an already-perfected (Siddha) mantra or hymn for a specific result. It is doubled by wrapping Kalawa around it.
Why a wrong Saptashati havan stops marriages and mangalik work
The speaker says people who do a Saptashati havan without knowing its rules become the cause of their own ruin: mangalik work in the home stops, marriages get stuck and are slow to happen afterwards, and the household's auspiciousness is destroyed. The reason he gives: when Agni is invoked in the fire — Agni who is Mother Svaha — and an astra mantra from the Kavach is put into her mouth as ahuti, her mouth is pierced; how then will she do you good? Without a guru's knowledge and adesh, offer only nourishing (paushtik) mantras; there is a further vidhi of which mantra goes to which Agni in the Kavach chapter and elsewhere. What may be offered freely 108 times is the first mantra of the Keelak, which he quotes as "विशुद्ध ज्ञान देहया त्रिवेदी दीप चक्षु से … श्रेय प्राप्ति निमित्ताय", and also Jayanti Mangala Kalika. He closes: do not do a Shatchandi with wrong havan, wrong path or wrong vidhi.
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Aprajita Stotram
अप्राजिता स्तोत्रम्A hymn to Goddess Aprajita, recited on Vijayadashami (Dashami) alongside the Ramraksha Stotram and Aditya Hridaya Stotram to close out the Navratri fast.
Omkar
ओंकारThe syllable Om, foundational because all mantras reside within it — no other mantra fully awakens until this foundational energy is awakened; its 'A', 'U', 'M' represent Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh, while its crescent-dot Ardha-Matra represents the Divine Feminine (Bhagvati).
Mantra Sanjeevan
मंत्र संजीवनThe advanced procedure of fully reviving an unbound mantra's power — never attempted without a Guru's direct command, since the sudden rise in the mantra's energy and the body's fire element can produce burning, boils, or other adverse effects without preliminary work (e.g. Ganapati Tarpan) already mastered to calm it.
Shraap
शापA curse, whether uttered by a sage, deity, or wronged being.
Laghu Purashcharana
लघु पुरश्चरणA short mantra recitation — at least 27 or 100 rounds, or half an hour of silent chanting — performed after Darshan at a pilgrimage site; a pilgrimage is considered incomplete without staying at least one night and performing it.
Devi Pranava
देवी प्रणवBhagavati Bhuvaneshwari's Maya seed syllable ('Hreem'), open to everyone to chant and never bound — carrying the capacity to unbind any other mantra it is encased with, useful for a practitioner without a Guru.
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