Shiva Purana — Rudra Samhita, Shloka 24
सती-शिवचरित्रप्रसङ्गः / The Account of Satī and Śiva’s Divine Conduct
Prelude to Detailed Narrative
इति श्रीशिवमहापुराणे द्वितीयायां रुद्रसंहितायां द्वितीये सतीखंडे रामपरीक्षावर्णनं नाम चतुर्विंशोऽध्यायः
iti śrīśivamahāpurāṇe dvitīyāyāṃ rudrasaṃhitāyāṃ dvitīye satīkhaṃḍe rāmaparīkṣāvarṇanaṃ nāma caturviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ
So endet im Śrī Śiva-Mahāpurāṇa — im Zweiten Buch, der Rudra-Saṃhitā, im zweiten Abschnitt namens Satī-Khaṇḍa — das vierundzwanzigste Kapitel mit dem Titel „Beschreibung der Prüfung Rāmas“.
Sūta Gosvāmin (traditional Purāṇic narrator concluding the chapter)
Sthala Purana: Colophon (iti-vākya) marking the end of the chapter ‘Rāma-parīkṣā-varṇana’; no site-specific sthala narrative is embedded here.
Significance: Textual sanctity: recitation/listening to Purāṇic chapters is itself treated as puṇya; the colophon signals completion (pāraṇa) of a narrative unit for śravaṇa-phala.
FAQs
This is a chapter-colophon that seals the teaching by marking the completion of a narrative unit; in Purāṇic tradition, such closure emphasizes careful listening, retention, and reverent transmission of Śiva-centered dharma and devotion.
Though it is not a direct injunction about Liṅga worship, its placement in the Rudra Saṃhitā (Satī Khaṇḍa) frames the preceding account within Śiva’s saguna līlā-context, where devotion, dharma, and divine testing ultimately point back to Śiva as the supreme Pati.
As a concluding marker, it implicitly supports the Purāṇic practice of śravaṇa (devotional listening) and smaraṇa (remembrance); a fitting takeaway is to conclude reading with a brief Śiva-nāma-japa such as the Pañcākṣarī, “Om Namaḥ Śivāya.”