The oldest versions of the Skanda Purana texts have been discovered in the Himalayan region of South Asia such as Nepal, and the northeastern states of India such as Assam. Hans Bakker states that the text specifies holy places and details about the 4th and 5th-century Citraratha of Andhra Pradesh, and thus may have an earlier origin. Isaacson dated the oldest surviving palm-leaf manuscript of Skanda Purana to 810 CE, but Richard Mann adds that earlier versions of the text likely existed in the 6th-century CE. This suggests that the original text existed before this time. They dated the manuscript to 7th century CE, on paleographic grounds. Haraprasad Shastri and Cecil Bendall, in about 1898, discovered an old palm-leaf manuscript of Skanda Purana in a Kathmandu library in Nepal, written in Gupta script. This Mahāpurāṇa, like others, is attributed to the sage Vyasa. The editions of Skanda Purana text also provide an encyclopedic travel handbook with meticulous Tirtha Mahatmya (pilgrimage tourist guides), containing geographical locations of pilgrimage centers in India, Nepal and Tibet, with related legends, parables, hymns and stories. The common elements in the variant editions encyclopedically cover cosmogony, mythology, genealogy, dharma, festivals, gemology, temples, geography, discussion of virtues and evil, of theology and of the nature and qualities of Shiva as the Absolute and the source of true knowledge.
It is considered by scholars, in a historic sense, as among the 'shiftiest, living' texts which was widely edited, over many centuries, creating numerous variants. The earliest text titled Skanda Purana likely existed by the 6th-century CE, but the Skanda Purana that has survived into the modern era exists in many versions. The text has been an important historical record and influence on the Hindu traditions related to war-god Skanda.
While the text is named after Skanda, he does not feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other Shiva-related Puranas. The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is part of Shaivite literature, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati, who is also known as Kartikeya and Murugan. The Skanda Purana is the largest Mahāpurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. Just click on the particular line in the scrolling text, It will play the song accordingly.Skanda Purana Hindu audio book on Pocket FM (Thanks to Navya Sree N) Skanda Purana Listen to the song with TAMIL and ENGLISH Lyrics of Sivapuranam - Om Nama Shivaya.īased on the song(slider), lyrics will scroll accordingly and its highlights the line where you are listening currently. One is Sung by 'Sangeetha Poosanam' Pon Sundralingam Thiruvasagam is a volume of Tamil hymns composed/written by the ninth century Shaivite bhakti poet Manikkavasagar. Sivapuranam is one of the part(first part) of Thiruvasagam.
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