The Shiv Puran as we have it today is said to be only a fragment of what originally existed. ![]() This is a common theme in all Indian mythology, an alludes to the impossibility of encompassing knowledge of all creation within a book, or any number of books for that matter. The Shiv Puran is today a matter of interest for many physicist-philosophers, since many of the stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the descriptions given by modern cosmology regarding the creation and birth of the universe. Fritjof Capra for instance, narrates in his book “The Tao of Physics”, how similar in structure the statue of Nataraja (Shiva as the Lord of Dance) is to the traces left behind by subatomic particles in a Bubble Chamber.
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