Narratives from the Liṅga Purāṇa
The Liṅga Purāṇa holds many narratives. The pages below retell them one by one in simple English, each with the chapters it comes from.
The Liṅga Purāṇa tells how the ṛshi Dadhīci and the king Kshupa quarrelled over varṇa, and how Dadhīci's Śiva-bhakti overcame Bhagavān Vishṇu and the devas.
Dāruvana LīlāBhagavān Śiva enters the Dāruvana forest as a naked, beautiful ascetic, is cursed by the ṛshis in vain, and then teaches them the Pāśupata Vrata and the bhasma bath.
Jyotirlinga ĀvirbhāvaIn the Liṅga Purāṇa, a column of light appears between Brahmā and Vishṇu at the time of dissolution, and Parameśvara shows himself as the source of all.
Nandīśvara CaritraThe Liṅga Purāṇa tells the life of Nandīśvara, from Śilāda's tapas and his birth from the yajña ground to his immortality, the five rivers, his coronation and marriage.