Thousand names of Lord Shiva from Mahabharat
Translated by P.R.Ramachander
There are two versions of Shiva sahasranama;
one in Linga Purana (Wihch Lord
Krishna taught to Sage Markandeya) and the other which occurs in
Anushasanika Parva of Mahabharata.
In the Mahabaratha version Yudishtra after
hearing the Vishnu Sahasranama from Bheeshma requests
him also to teach the thousand names of Lord Shiva.
Bheeshma expresses his inability to the same and requests Lord Krishna to
teach it to Yudishtra. Then Lord Krishna who
has learnt it from Sage Upamanyu teaches it to Yudishtra.
A bhashya
for this was written by Sri Chathurthara Neela Kanda called “Bharatha bhava pradheepam”.
Based on this Sri.N.Subramanya Iyer wrote a detailed
interpretation in Tamil which was published initially by the Sarada Peetham,
Sringeri. Later they gave the publishing rights to Ramakrishna Mutt of Madras.
These are the 1008 names of Lord Shiva.
45 names are repeated twice, 11 are repeated thrice and three names are
repeated four times. Different meanings are given to each repetition.
A good sadhana is to read this post every
morning and evening especially at Brahma Muhurat and Sandhya.
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