[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.2030 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2030 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2030 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2030](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2030) 17) Śivalīlās (Sports of Śiva). The Purāṇas refer to the following sixtyfour līlās (sports) of Śiva. (1) Devendra redeemed from sin. (2) Airāvata redeemed from sin. (3) Building of Madhurāpura in Kadamba forest. (4) Śrī Pārvatī born at Taṭātakā. (5) Pāṇḍyadeva wedded Taṭātakā. (6) Dance before sage Patañjali (7) Kuṇḍodara granted power to consume much rice (8) Quenched Kuṇḍodara's hunger and thirst with rice etc. and waters of river Vaigā (9) Brought the seven seas near to please his wife (10) Brought Malayadhvaja down to earth from Devaloka (11) Created the son called Ugra (12) Ugra given three weapons like śūla (13) Removed the sea from his side (14) Broke the crown of Indra (15) Ugrapāṇḍya given gold from Mahāmeru (16) Taught the maharṣis the meaning of Vedas (17) Sold gems to the King to make a crown (18) Made the clouds drink water from the ocean (19) Stopped excessive rain-fall (20) Exhibited the prowess of realisation (21) Made ‘stone-elephant’ eat sugar-cane (22) Killed the elephant which a Buddha sannyāsin had sent after being subjected to black magic (23) Blessed a brahmin girl (24) Did various kinds of dances (25) Brought to light and proved the death of brahmin woman (26) Annihilated the evil or sin of having slept with the mother and killed the father (27) Killed Siddha to save the wife of preceptor, taught archery (28) Made the snakes sent by Buddha sannyāsins poisonless (29) Killed cows sent by the same sannyāsins (30) Exhibited innumerable soldiers to save the commander-in-chief of the Pāṇḍya army (31) Gave the Pāṇḍya King a money-bag, which would never become empty (32) Disguised himself as a Vaiśya and sold bangles (33) Granted aṣṭasiddhis to Yakṣīs. (34) Opened the door of the temple for the Cola King (35) Supplied water to the Pāṇḍyan army (36) Converted base metals into gold etc. (37) Defeated the Cola King (38) Gave a Śūdra a vessel filled with gingelly seeds (39) A Vaiśya boy given victory in a suit (40) Redeemed the Pāṇḍya King from the sin of brahmahatyā (41) Carried firewood to save the devotee named Bhadra (42) Wrote a letter to the Cera King on behalf of Bhadra (43) Bhadra presented with a plank (44) Bhadra's wife granted victory in nāgavidyā (45) Assumed the form of pork and saved the small offsprings (46) Small pork made minister (47) A Khañjarīṭa bird was taught the mṛtyuñjaya mantra so that it could escape from the attack of crows (48) A Śarāri bird granted salvation (49) Boundaries of Madhurāpura shown by serpent (50) Defeated the Cola King (51) Dravidian scholars given the Saṅgham plank (52) Wrote a verse for a brahmin at the instance of the Pāṇḍya King (53) Saved Nakkīra (54) Nakkīra taught sūtras (aphorisms) (55) Made a comparative study of theses (56) Visited northern Hālāsya (57) Wedded fisher-girl (58) Jñānadīkṣā (initiation into knowledge) given to the minister called Vātapureśa (59) Sold magic horses to the Pāṇḍyan King (60) River made bigger (61) Carried mud for pancakes (62) Cured the fever and hunch-back of Kubja Pāṇḍya (63) Made Jñānasambandhar kill the naked ones on the śūla (64) Brought tree, tank, Śivaliṅga etc. to Madhura as witnesses. (Hālāsyamāhātmya, Chapter 5). - [Previous: c9.2029](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2029) - [Next: c9.2031](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2031) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) ## Cites (1) - [Hālāsyamāhātmya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.tamil.madhura-halasya.halasya.5) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2030](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2030) · Pramāṇa