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Translated by Shri Purohit Swami.
Translated by John Henry Richards
Translated by Achyarya Pranipata Chaitanya. Includes Sanskrit text in Devangari and IAST, word-for-word gloss, and English translation.
By Ramana Maharshi. Translated by Arthur Osborne.
Translated and annotated by Robert Butler. Includes grammatical commentary with lexicon and concordance and index of Tamil grammar by subject, following the Tamil commentaries of Sri Lakshmana Sarma and Sri Sadhu Om Swami.
By Vaiyai R. Subramaniam. Highly recommended by Ramana Maharshi.
Translated by Paul Reps and Lakshmana Joo.
By Purnananda Swami. Translated by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe).
A comparison of ten complete translations.
Translated by A. Mahadeva Sastri.
Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer.
Lord Shiva manifests as a pillar of fire to curb the egos of Brahma and Vishnu, who were fighting with each other in a dispute over which of the two was the greater, in this famous story from the Arunachala Puranam, the 17th century Tamil classic.
By Saiva Ellappa Navalar and translated by Robert Butler.
This page was published on June 1, 2017 and last revised on September 17, 2019.