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The Shiva Purana is one of the Purāṇa s dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva . It has twenty-four thousand '' Shloka s''. These are divided into six '' Samhita s'' or sections. The names of the sections are jnana samhita, vidyeshvara samhit, kailasa samhita, sanatkumar samhita, vayaviya samhita and dharma samhit. Each samhita is further subdivided into chapters ('' Adhyaya ''). Jnana samhita has seventy-eight chapters, vidyeshvara samhita sixteen, kailasa samhita twelve, sanathkumar samhila fifty-nine, vayaviya samhita thirty and dharma samhita sixty-five.

Tradition holds that the Shiva Purana was recited by Vedavyasa ’s disciple [Romaharshana, alternatively, Loma-harshana.