Shiva Puja

The Puranas are a collection of texts describing the feats of various Gods and Figures from Hindu Cosmology.

The texts are organized by their focus on one of the major Devas and explore the feats and legends of those Gods.

An example might be not offering Magnolia champaca and Pandanus odorifer flowers to Shiva, each given a justification grounded in an episode from mythology.

Shiva Abhishekam is usually performed to a Lingam, representing his manifestation as a creator of good (by destroying evil).

Herein the most powerful and popular Shiva Slokas are as below: The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra reads (IAST transliteration): In the translation of Arthur Berriedale Keith (1914): "OM.

As, in due time, the stem of the cucumber weakens, and the gourd is freed from the vine, so free us from attachment and death, and do not withhold immortality."