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The Bhāgavata Purāna : Selected Readings / Ravi Gupta, Kenneth Valpey; Ravi Gupta, Kenneth Valpey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta, Ravi, Author.
- Valpey, Kenneth, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puranas. Bhāgavatapurāṇa.
- Puranas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (326 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu, and its philosophical outlook is grounded in the classical traditions of Vedanta and Samkhya. No other Purana has inspired so much commentary, imitation, and derivation. The work has grown in vibrancy through centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate and has guided the actions and meditations of elite intellectuals and everyday worshippers alike. This annotated translation and detailed analysis shows how one text can have such enduring appeal. Key selections from the Bhagavata Purana are faithfully translated, while all remaining sections of the Purana are concisely summarized, providing the reader with a continuous and comprehensive narrative. Detailed endnotes explain unfamiliar concepts and several essays elucidate the rich philosophical and religious debates found in the Sanskrit commentaries. Together with the multidisciplinary readings contained in the companion volume The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia, 2013), this book makes a central Hindu masterpiece more accessible to English-speaking audiences and more meaningful to scholars of Hindu literature, philosophy, and religion.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Book One
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Book Four
- Book Five
- Book Six
- Book Seven
- Book Eight
- Book Nine
- Book Ten
- Book Eleven
- Book Twelve
- Commentarial Excursions
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780231542340
- 0231542348
- OCLC:
- 984656416
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