Stories from Hindu Epics / Puranas

The 18 Puranas (meaning - ancient things) and itihAsas (meaning - history) are have very rich accounts of ancient happenings. In this section the excerpts of some of these stories are presented in a simplified form.

Hindu Short Stories on Lord Shiva

1. சிவகிருபாகடாக்ஷம் - PDF

2. ஸெளர புராணத்தில் சிவமஹிமை - PDF

3. மத்ஸ்யபுராணக் கதைகள்    PDF

4. Lord shiva appearing as Fire pillar and brahma, viShNu searching the ends of It

5. Goddess shakti becoming a half into Lord shiva

6. The story of dakshNamUrthi

7. Drinking the terrific poison and saving the worlds

8. Lord shiva wearing Crescent to the head

9. Lord destroying the rite of daksha - The story of  Virabhadrar

10. Establishing devotion in the heart of sages of dArukAvana

11. Buring the kAma (lust) to ashes

12. Burning the tripurAsuras

13. Blessing arjuna with pAshupatAstra

14. Wedding pArvati

15. Protecting mArkaNDeya from death

16. Cutting the head of daemon jalandhara

17. Giving sudarshana disc to mahAviShNu

18. Ripping away the elephant daemon

19. Holding Ganges on the head

20. Dance of God

21. mahAviShNu getting manmata as the son

Having read the stories of Lord shiva, don't you want to read the stories of Lord shiva's devotees. Read through the Life of nAyanmAr andOther Devotees.

Plays of God - thiruviLaiyADal purANam