The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered, relationship between gods, ethics, Tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. Some chapters of currently surviving Shiva Purana manuscripts were likely composed after the 14th-century. The oldest manuscript of surviving texts was likely composed, estimates, around 10th- to 11th-century CE. The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, was likely a living text, which was routinely edited, recast and revised over a long period of time. The two versions that include books, title some of the books same and others differently. The surviving manuscripts exist in many different versions and content, with one major version with seven books (traced to South India), another with six books, while the third version traced to the medieval region of the with no books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section).
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