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The Shiva Purana ((サンスクリット:शिव पुराण), ) or Shiva Mahapurana is the supreme Purana of the Shaivites.Shiv Purana is written by Rishi ved Vyas.The Mahapurana details the creation, preservation and ultimate destruction of the universe and serves as a guide to the worship of the Supreme God Shiva, among other gods and goddesses. According to a tradition which is stated in the (the Venkateshvara Press edition) of this text, the original text was known as the ''Shaiva Purana''. Although it may be weakly and narrowly cited that the Shiva Purana is a tamas purana as per the Padma Purana, Shaivites consider this Puran to be the supreme Sattva text and a guide for true virtuous living.〔As categorized in Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda, 236.18–21〕 The Vidyesvara Samhita is the authoritative text for Shaivites on the treatise of Rudrakasha and bhasma. As well, the Mahapurana authoritatively explains the creation of the Dus Mahavidyha, Saligram Sila, correct method of puja, yantra worship and the exhaustive treatise on initiation into Shaivism. According to tradition, the purana originally consisted of twelve s and 100,000 shlokas (verses). After the reconstruction and the abridgment by Vedavyasa, the extant text comprises 24000 s (verses), which he taught to his disciple Romaharshana (or Lomaharshana). JL Shastri, in his book, "The Siva Purana", suggests that the Vayu Purana is either a part of the complete Shiva Purana of twelve s or has a close relationship with it. ==The recensions of the text== Several recensions of this text exist. The recension presented by the edition published by the Vangavasi Press, Calcutta in 1908 consists of six s (sections): The recension presented by the two other editions published by the Venkateshvara Press, Bombay in 1906 and the Pandita Pustakalaya, Kashi in 1963 consists of seven s:〔 According to a passage found in the first chapters of and of these recensions the original Shiva Purana comprised twelve s, which included five lost s: , (or ), , and (or ).〔 The number of verses in these sections were as follows: # Vidyeshvara Samhita - 10,000 # Rudra Samhita - 8,000 # Vainayaka Samhita - 8,000 # Uma Samhita - 8,000 # Matri Samhita - 8,000 # Rudraikadasha Samhita - 13,000 # Kailasa Samhita - 6,000 # Shatarudra Samhita - 3,000 # Sahasrakotirudra Samhita - 11,000 # Kotirudra Samhita - 9,000 # Vayaviya Samhita - 4,000 # Dharma Samhita - 12,000 Several other s are also ascribed to the . These are the , the , the , the and the Haraprasad Shastri mentioned in the Notices of Sanskrit MSS IV, pp. 220–3, Nos, 298–299 about another manuscript of the , which is divided into two khandas (parts), the and the . The consists 3270 s in 51 chapters written in Nagari script and the has 45 chapters written in Oriya script. It was preserved in Mahimprakash Brahmachari Matha in Puri. The of this manuscript is same as the of the Vangavasi Press edition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shiva Purana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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