![]() ![]() Certain chapters of the surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were probably composed after the 1st century AD. The oldest manuscript of the surviving texts was probably composed, estimates Klaus Klostermaier, around the 4th to the 2nd century BC. This is a compilation of Ten Thousand Names of Lord Shiva in Sanskrit alphabetical order, enabling one to worship Shiva by adding ‘namaH’ at the end of each name. The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, was probably a living text, which was regularly edited, recast and revised over a long period of time. These Samba Sada Shiva Names are from Shivanamamanjari, Mahaperiaval Publication Compiled by Brahma Vidya Ratna, Rashtrapati Sammanita Vaidya S.V. The two versions, which include books, name certain books in the same way and others differently. The surviving manuscripts exist in many different versions and contents, with a major version with seven books (traced in South India), another with six books, while the third version dates back to the medieval region of Bengal from the Indian subcontinent without books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section). It was written by Romaharshana, a disciple of Vyasa belonging to the Suta class. ![]() The Shiva Purana claims that it once included 100,000 verses stated in twelve samhitas (books). ![]()
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