Ravi Gupta & Kenneth Valpey 
The Bhāgavata Purāna [EPUB ebook] 
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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.

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Foreword, by C. Mackenzie Brown
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

Over de auteur

Ravi M. Gupta is the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami: When Knowledge Meets Devotion (2007), editor of Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy (2014), and coeditor, with Kenneth R. Valpey, of The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia, 2013).Kenneth R. Valpey is a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is the author of Attending Krishna’s Image: Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth (2006).

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