Stotras to Śiva

The meditation on 108 names of Bhagavān Śiva as Mṛtyuñjaya that Andhaka made while hanging on Śiva's triśūla, in the Śiva Purāṇa.

The stotra the ṛshi Asita sang to Bhagavān Śiva in Śivaloka, asking for a son. It is in the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Śrī Kṛshṇa Janana Khaṇḍa, Chapter 30.

Bāṇāsura's hymn to Bhagavān Śiva as the Virāṭpurusha, whose body is the whole universe. It is in the Śiva Purāṇa, Rudra Saṃhitā, Yuddha Khaṇḍa, Chapter 56.

The stotra King Bhagīratha sang to Bhagavān Śiva to obtain Gaṅgā for his forefathers. It is in the Nārada Mahā Purāṇa, Pūrvārdha, Chapter 76.

The stotra Bhagavān Brahmā sang to Bhagavān Śiva to save Bhagavān Sūrya from his anger. It is in the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Śrī Kṛshṇa Janana Khaṇḍa, Chapter 48.

The joint hymn to Parameśvara called the Brahmā-Nārāyaṇa Stava, found in the Liṅga Purāṇa, Pūrvārdha, after Rudra came forth from Brahmā's brow.

The stotra Brahmā sang to Bhagavān Śiva and Devī Pārvatī after Kālabhairava cut off his fifth head, told in the Kūrma Purāṇa.

The stotra Brahmā sang to Bhagavān Śiva when the Kālakūṭa poison rose from the churning of the ocean, after which Śiva became Nīlakaṇṭha.

The great hymn that Brahmā and Bhagavān Vishṇu sang to Bhagavān Śiva at Śivaloka, in the Yuddha Khaṇḍa of the Śiva Purāṇa.

The stotra the ṛshis sang to Parameśvara and Devī Pārvatī in the Dārukāvana forest after he showed his true nature, told in the Kūrma Purāṇa.

The two hymns the great ṛshis sang to Parameśvara in the Dāruvana forest, before and after he showed his divine form, told in the Liṅga Purāṇa.

A stotra of forty names that Dharma sang to Bhagavān Śiva at Dharmāraṇya, after which Śiva became Dharmeśvara there.

Dharma's stotra to Bhagavān Śiva at the Dharma Pushkariṇī, after which Śiva made Dharma his vāhana, the bull Vṛshabha.

Gautama Maharshi's stotra to Maheśvara at Kailāsa, praising Śiva's eight bodies and Umā; it won Gaṅgā from Śiva's jaṭā.

The stotra Himavat sang to Bhagavān Śaṅkara after giving his daughter Pārvatī to him in marriage, told in the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa.

The stotra the ṛshis sang to Parameśvara at Badrikāśrama when he showed his cosmic dance at the end of the teaching of the Īśvara Gītā.

A stotra of twenty-six verses in which the ṛshi Kaśyapa praises Bhagavān Śiva as Viśveśvara and Mahādeva, found in Chapter 74 of the Harivaṃśa Vishṇu Parva.

The stotra that Bhagavān Kṛshṇa and Arjuna sang together to Bhagavān Parameśvara in a vision on the night before the fourteenth day of the war, in the Droṇa Parva.

The Sanskrit stotra that Bhagavān Kṛshṇa offered to Bhagavān Śiva when they met on Kailāsa, found in the Bhavishya Parva of the Harivaṃśa, Chapters 82 and 83.

How Bhagavān Śiva took Kṛshṇa to Kailāsa after the stotra at Upamanyu's āśrama, and how Garuḍa brought him back to Dvārakā, in the Kūrma Purāṇa.

An eleven-verse stotra that Bhagavān Kṛshṇa sang to Bhagavān Śiva on Mount Pāriyātra, in Chapter 76 of the Harivaṃśa Vishṇu Parva.

Bhagavān Kṛshṇa praises Bhagavān Śiva as the supreme brahman at Upamanyu's āśrama in the Himālaya, in the Kūrma Mahā Purāṇa.

On the battlefield of the Bāṇāsura war Bhagavān Kṛshṇa praises Bhagavān Śiva as the supreme Parabrahman, in the Śiva Purāṇa, Yuddha Khaṇḍa, chapter 54.

Two hymns to Parameśvara Śiva at the Rudra-sṛshṭi, one by Vishṇu and one by Brahmā, in the Kūrma Mahā Purāṇa, chapters 9 and 10.

The hymn of Arjuna to Bhagavān Śiva after the Kirāta battle on the Himālaya, in the Mahābhārata, Vana Parva, chapter 39.

The five mantras Sadyojāta, Vāmadeva, Aghora, Tatpurusha and Īśāna, and Brahmā's hymn to the five Brahma forms of Śiva, in the Liṅga Purāṇa.

Pārvatī's stotra to Bhagavān Śiva at Dharmāraṇya, using six Śākinī-bījas and common names of Śiva, from the Skanda Mahā Purāṇa.

The Rudrāshṭakam is the eight-verse stotra to Bhagavān Śiva sung by Kākabhuśuṇḍi's guru in the Uttara Kāṇḍa of the Tulasī Rāmāyaṇa.

Śaṅkukarṇa's stotra to Bhagavān Śiva as Kapardīśvara at Kāśī, from Chapter 33 of the Kūrma Mahā Purāṇa, after he freed a piśāca.

The Śiva Kavaca is a protective hymn taught by Bhagavān Śiva to Bāṇāsura, with a twelve-akshara mūla mantra, in the Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa.

The 1,008 names of Mahādeva in the Mahābhārata, taught by Upamanyu to Kṛshṇa and told by Kṛshṇa to Yudhishṭhira, with the meaning of the names.

The hymn of one thousand names of Śiva in the Koṭi Rudra Saṃhitā of the Śiva Purāṇa, and the kinds of names it holds.

The 1,008 names of Parameśvara that Ṭaṇḍi taught King Tridhanu in the Liṅga Purāṇa, and the fruit of reciting them.

Seven verses that Bhagavān Kalki sang to Śiva at the shrine of Bilvodeśvara, after which Śiva gave him a horse, a parrot and a sword.

The stotra of about a hundred names of Rudra that Saṃvarta taught King Marutta so that he could win the hidden gold of Muñjavanta for his yajña.

The Śiva Triśatī is the stotra of three hundred names of Bhagavān Śiva, composed by Śukrācārya and found in Chapter 47 of the Matsya Purāṇa.

The stotra of more than a hundred names of Bhagavān Śiva that Śukrācārya sang after his thousand years of dhūma-vrata, in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa.

The hymn Śukrācārya offered to Bhagavān Śiva at Kāśī, praising his eight forms, from Chapter 50 of the Yuddha Khaṇḍa of the Śiva Purāṇa.

The stotra of surrender that the rājarshi Śveta offered to Parameśvara at Kālañjara after Bhagavān Śiva slew Kāla, from the Kūrma Purāṇa.

The hymn Bhagavān Vishṇu sang to Parameśvara when the Jyotirliṅga first appeared in the great ocean, from Chapter 18 of the Liṅga Purāṇa.

A kavaca of Bhagavān Śiva taught by the yogī Ṛshabha to prince Bhadrāyu, calling on his five faces to guard every direction, body part, time and place.