The Shiv Puran is one of eighteen Puran genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily centers around the Hindu god Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods.

It was written by Rishi Ved Vyas. It consists of 24,000 Shlokas in 7 Samhitas.

The red flavor of our values and traditions could be experienced by studying Vedas, Upanishads, and Paranas. Our day-to-day conduct, thinking, and beliefs reflect our cultural values. Paranas. have contributed a great deal in preserving these principles and values.


A Jyotirlinga is a devotional object representing the god Shiva. Jyoti means 'radiance' and lingam the 'mark or sign' of Shiva, or a symbol of the pineal gland; Jyotir Lingam thus means The Radiant sign of The Almighty. There are twelve traditional Jyotirlinga shrines in India.

Shiva is the "destroyer of evil and the transformer" within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma and Vishnu. In Shaivism tradition, Shiva is the Supreme being who creates, protects, and transforms the universe. He is one of the five equivalent deities in Panchayatana puja of the Smarta tradition of Hinduism.