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The Periya Puranam (Tamil: பெரிய‌ புராண‌ம்), that is, the great purana or epic, sometimes called Tiruttontarpuranam ('Tiru-Thondar-Puranam', the Purana of the Holy Devotees), is a Tamil poetic account depicting the lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism. It was compiled during the 12th century by Sekkizhar. It provides evidence of trade with West Asia^[1] The Periya Puranam is part of the corpus of Shaiva canonical works.

Sekkizhar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam or the Great Purana, (the life stories of the sixty-three ShaivaNayanars, poets of the God Shiva) who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai, and was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon.^[2] Among all the hagiographic Puranas in Tamil, Sekkizhar's Tiruttondar Puranam or Periyapuranam, composed during the rule of Kulottunga Chola II (1133-1150) stands first.^[3]

Background[edit]

Sekkizhar was a poet and the chief minister in the court of the Chola King, Kulothunga Chola II. Kulottunga Chola II, king Anabaya Chola, was a staunch devotee of Lord Siva Natraja at Chidambaram. He continued the reconstruction of the center of Tamil Saivism that was begun by his ancestors. However Kulottunga II was also enchanted by the Jain courtly epic, Jivaka Cintamani an epic of erotic flavour (sringara rasa) whose hero, Jivaka, combines heroics and erotics to marry eight damsels and gain a kingdom. In the end he realises the transiency of possessions, renounces his kingship and finally attains Nirvana by prolonged austerity (tapas).^{[4][full citation needed]}

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In order to wean Kulottunga Chola II from the heretical Jivaka Cintamani, Sekkizhar undertook the task of writing the Periyapuranam.^{[2][full citation needed]}

Periyapuranam[edit]

The study of Jivaka Cintamani by Kulottunga Chola II, deeply affected Sekkizhar who was very religious in nature. He exhorted the king to abandon the pursuit of impious erotic literature and turn instead to the life of the Saiva saints celebrated by Sundaramurti Nayanar and Nambiyandar Nambi. The king thereupon invited Sekkizhar to expound the lives of the Saiva saints in a great poem. As a minister of the state Sekkizhar had access to the lives of the saints and after he collected the data, he wrote the poem in the Thousand Pillared Hall of the Chidambaram temple.^[5] Legend has it that the Lord himself provided Sekkizhar with the first feet of the first verse as a divine voice from the sky declaring 'உலகெலாம்' (ulakelam: All the world).^{[citation needed]}

This work is considered the most important initiative of Kulottunga Chola II's reign. Although, it is only a literary embellishment of earlier hagiographies of the Saiva saints composed by Sundarar and Nambiyandar Nambi, it came to be seen as the epitome of high standards of the Chola culture, because of the highest order of the literary style.^{[5][full citation needed]} The Periyapuranam is considered as a fifth Veda in Tamil and immediately took its place as the twelfth and the last book in the Saiva canon. It is considered as one of the masterpieces of the Tamil literature and worthily commemorates the Golden age of the Cholas.^{[3][full citation needed]}

Significance[edit]

All the saints mentioned in this epic poem are historical persons and not mythical. Therefore, this is a recorded history of the 63 Saiva saints called as Nayanmars (ldevotees of Lord Siva), who attain salvation by their unflinching devotion to Siva. The Nayanmars that he talks about belonged to different castes, different occupations and lived in different times.^{[3][full citation needed]}

References[edit]

1. ^Glimpses of life in 12th century South India
2. ^ ^abA Dictionary of Indian Literature By Sujit Mukherjee.
3. ^ ^abcMedieval Indian Literature By K. Ayyappapanicker, Sahitya Akademi.
4. ^Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees By Alf Hiltebeitel.
5. ^ ^abThe Home of Dancing Śivan̲ By Paul Younger.

External links[edit]

• Periya Puranam in Tamil.
• Periya Puranam in English.
• Nayanar temples locations explained in Periya puranam

The Shiva Purana is one of the eighteen Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus.^[1] It primarily centers around the Hindu god Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods.^[2][3][4]

The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve samhitas (books). It was written by Romaharshana, a disciple of Vyasa belonging to Suta class.^[1] The surviving manuscripts exist in many different versions and content,^[5] with one major version with seven books (traced to South India), another with six books, while the third version traced to the medieval Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with no books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section).^[1][6] The two versions that include books, title some of the books same and others differently.^[1] The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, was likely a living text, which was routinely edited, recast and revised over a long period of time.^[7][8] The oldest manuscript of surviving texts was likely composed, estimates Klaus Klostermaier, around 10th- to 11th-century CE.^[9][4] Some chapters of currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed after the 14th-century.^[6]

The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, 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 oldest surviving chapters of the Shiva Purana have significant Advaita Vedanta philosophy,^[6] which is mixed in with theistic elements of bhakti.^[13]

In the 19th- and 20th-century, the Vayu Purana was sometimes titled as Shiva Purana, and sometimes proposed as a part of the complete Shiva Purana.^[14]

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Date[edit]

The date is unknown but the author is said to be estimated that Maharishi Agastya with his disciple Shankaracharya. Scholars such as Klostermaier as well as Hazra estimate that the oldest chapters in the surviving manuscript were likely composed around the 10- to 11th-centuries CE, which has not stood the test of carbon dating technology hence on that part we must rely on the text itself which tells when it was composed .^[9][4] Certain books and chapters in currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed later, some after the 14th-century.^[6] The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, were routinely edited, recast and revised over the centuries.^[7][8]

Hazra states that the Bombay manuscript published in the 19th-century is rarer, and likely the older than other versions published from eastern and southern India.^[15]

Different manuscripts[edit]

A pathologist diagnoses correctly,
and cures illness through medicines.
Similarly, Shiva is called the physician of the world,
by those who know the nature of the principles.
Shiva is the great Atman,
because he is the Atman of all,
he is forever endowed with the great qualities,
there is no greater Atman than him.

—Shiva Purana, Kailasa samhita, Chapter 9.17-22
(Abridged, Translator: JL Shastri)^[16]

Several recensions of this text exist. The Bombay 1884 manuscript recension published by the Vangavasi Press, Calcutta in 1896 consists of five Saṁhitās (sections):^[17]

Sivapuranam Spb

The second manuscript of Shiva Purana published in 1906, reprinted in 1965, by the Pandita Pustakalaya, Kashi consists of seven Saṁhitās:^[17]

According to a passage found in the first chapters of Vidyeśvara Saṁhitā and Vāyaviya Saṁhitā of these recensions the original Shiva Purana comprised twelve Saṁhitās, which included five lost Saṁhitās: Vaināyaka Saṁhitā, Mātṛ Saṁhitā (or Mātṛpurāṇa Saṁhitā), Rudraikādaśa Saṁhitā, Sahasrakoṭirudra Saṁhitā and Dharma Saṁhitā (or Dharmapurāṇa Saṁhitā). The number of verses in these sections were as follows:^[17]

1. Vidyeshvara Samhita - 10,000
2. Rudra Samhita - 8,000
3. Vainayaka Samhita - 8,000
4. Uma Samhita - 8,000
5. Matri Samhita - 8,000
6. Rudraikadasha Samhita - 13,000
7. Kailasa Samhita - 6,000
8. Shatarudra Samhita - 3,000
9. Sahasrakotirudra Samhita - 11,000
10. Kotirudra Samhita - 9,000
11. Vayaviya Samhita - 4,000
12. Dharma Samhita - 12,000

Several other Saṁhitās are also ascribed to the Śiva Purāṇa. These are the Īśāna Saṁhitā, the Īśvara Saṁhitā, the Sūrya Saṁhitā, the Tirthakṣetramāhātmya Saṁhitā and the Mānavī Saṁhitā.^[17]

Namasivaya Vazhga Lyrics

Haraprasad Shastri mentioned in the Notices of Sanskrit MSS IV, pp. 220–3, Nos, 298–299 about another manuscript of the Śiva Purāṇa, which is divided into two khandas (parts), the Pūrvakhaṇḍa and the Uttarakhaṇḍa. The Pūrvakhaṇḍa consists 3270 ślokas in 51 chapters written in Nagari script and the Uttarakhaṇḍa has 45 chapters written in Oriya script. It was preserved in Mahimprakash Brahmachari Matha in Puri. The Pūrvakhaṇḍa of this manuscript is the same as the Sanatkumara Saṁhitā of the Vangavasi Press edition.^{[citation needed]}

Shiva Purana Tamil Pdf

Contents[edit]

The Vidyeśvara Saṁhitā, also called Vighnesa Samhita or Vidyasara Samhita, appears in both editions, is free of mythology found in some other Samhitas, and is dedicated to describing the greatness and the bhakti of Shiva, particularly through the icon of linga.^[15] This section is also notable for mentioning both Shaiva Agamas and Tantric texts, but frequently quoting from the Vedas and asserting that the text is the essence of the Vedic teaching and the Vedanta.^[15] The chapters of this shared Samhita in different versions of the Shiva Purana includes a description of India's geography and rivers from north and south India so often and evenly that Hazra states it is difficult to gauge if this part was composed in north or south India.^[15]

The Jnanasamhita in one manuscript shares content with Rudrasamhita of the other manuscript, presents cosmology and mythology, and is notable for its discussion of saguna andnirguna Shiva.^[19]

The text discusses goddesses and gods, dedicates parts of chapters praising Vishnu and Brahma, as well as those related to avatars such as Krishna.^[20] It asserts that one must begin with karma-yajna, thereon step by step with tapo-yajna, then self-study, then regular meditation, ultimately to jnana-yajna and yoga to achieve sayujya (intimate union) with Shiva within.^[20] The text emphasizes bhakti and yoga, rather than bookish learning of the Vedas.^[21]

Siva Puranam In Tamil Pdf

The Shiva Purana dedicates chapters to Shaiva-Advaita philosophy, like Linga Purana and other Shaivism-related Puranas, advocating it as a system for salvation.^[22] The text also presents the Brahman as satcitananda theme, with masculine and feminine Shiva-Shakti as a unity, and perception of plurality-discrimination as a form of nescience.^[22] Love-driven devotional (bhakti), asserts the text, leads to knowledge, and such love combined with knowledge leads to attracting saintly people and guru, and with them one attains liberation, states Shiva Purana.^[22] These ideas, states Klaus Klostermaier, are similar to those found in Devi-related Puranas and Shakti literature.^[22]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdDalal 2014, p. 381.
2. ^ ^abJL Shastri 1950a.
3. ^Kramrisch 1976, pp. 172-173, 229, 263-275, 326, 340-369.
4. ^ ^abcK P Gietz 1992, p. 323 with note 1780.
5. ^Rocher 1986, pp. 222-224.
6. ^ ^abcdK P Gietz 1992, p. 539 with note 2987.
7. ^ ^abPintchman 2001, pp. 91-92 with note 4.
8. ^ ^abArvind Sharma (2003). The Study of Hinduism. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 160–167. ISBN978-1570034497.
9. ^ ^abKlostermaier 2007, p. 503.
10. ^Dalal 2014, pp. 381-382.
11. ^JL Shastri 1950d.
12. ^Klostermaier 2007, pp. 544-545 note 22.
13. ^Klaus K. Klostermaier (1984). Mythologies and Philosophies of Salvation in the Theistic Traditions of India. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 180, 263–264. ISBN978-0-88920-158-3. Quote: Though the basic tenor of those sections of Shiva Purana is Advaitic, the theistic elements of bhakti, gurupasati and so forth are mixed with it.
14. ^Shastri, JL (1970). The Siva Purana. India: Motilal Banarasidass. pp. xiii.
15. ^ ^abcdRocher 1986, p. 223.
16. ^JL Shastri 1950d, p. 1707.
17. ^ ^abcdRocher 1986, pp. 222–228.
18. ^JL Shastri 1950d, p. 1931.
19. ^Rocher 1986, pp. 223-224.
20. ^ ^abRocher 1986, pp. 225-226.
21. ^Rocher 1986, pp. 225-227.
22. ^ ^abcdKlaus K. Klostermaier (1984). Mythologies and Philosophies of Salvation in the Theistic Traditions of India. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. 179–180, 219, 233–234. ISBN978-0-88920-158-3.

Bibliography[edit]

• Dalal, Rosen (2014), Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide, Penguin, ISBN978-8184752779
• K P Gietz; et al. (1992), Epic and Puranic Bibliography (Up to 1985) Annoted and with Indexes: Part I: A - R, Part II: S - Z, Indexes, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN978-3-447-03028-1
• Klostermaier, Klaus (2007). A Survey of Hinduism, Third Edition. State University of New York Press. ISBN978-0791470824.
• JL Shastri (1950a). 'Siva Purana, Part 1'. Motilal Banarsidass.
• JL Shastri (1950b). 'Siva Purana, Part 2'. Motilal Banarsidass.
• JL Shastri (1950c). 'Siva Purana, Part 3'. Motilal Banarsidass.
• JL Shastri (1950d). 'Siva Purana, Part 4'. Motilal Banarsidass.
• Kramrisch, Stella (1976), The Hindu Temple, Volume 1 & 2, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN81-208-0223-3
• Pintchman, Tracy (2001), Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess, State University of New York Press, ISBN978-0791450086
• Rocher, Ludo (1986), The Puranas, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN978-3447025225

External links[edit]

• The Shiva Purana English translation by J. L. Shastri, 1970 (includes glossary)
• Surya and Nairrta on the Siva temple of Prambanan, Roy E. Jordaan (1992), pages 59–66, Brill (Puranas/Shiva texts in southeast Asia)