Certain chapters of the surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were probably composed after the 1st century AD.Īida32 download free, Aida32 latest version, Aida32 alternative, Aida32 portable, Aida. The oldest manuscript of the surviving texts was probably composed, estimates Klaus Klostermaier, around the 4th to the 2nd century BC. 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.

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).