Krishna: A Sourcebook

by Edwin F. Bryant

Overview

In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together new translations of representative samples of Krishna religious literature from a variety of genres — classical, popular, regional, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195148923
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/18/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Edwin F. Bryant is Associate Professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University. He is the translator of Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God (2004); author of The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate (OUP, 2001); co-editor of: The Hare Krishna Movement: The Post-Charismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant (2004), and The Aryan Invasion: Evidence, Politics, History (2005), and has just completed a translation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali with Notes from the Traditional Commentators (2007).

Table of Contents

General IntroductionSection One: Classical Source Material1.. Krishna in the Mahabharata: the Death of Karna, Alf Hiltebeitel2.. Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita, Robert N. Minor3.. Harivamsha: The Dynasty of Krishna, Ekkhard Lorenz4.. Krishna and the Bhagavata Purana, Edwin F. BryantSection Two: Regional Literary Expressions5.. Orissa — Shri Krishna Jagannath: Translation of Mushali Parva from Sarala's Mahabharata, Bijoy M. Misra6.. Assam — Shankaradeva's Parijata Harana Nata, William L. Smith7.. Tamil Nadu — Weaving Garlands in Tamil: the Poetry of the Alvars, Vasudha Narayanan8. Maharashtra — Games with God: Sakhya Bhakti in Marathi Sant Poetry, Vidyut Aklujkar9.. Vraj — Fishing in Sur's Ocean, John Stratton Hawley10.. Rajasthan — Mirabhai and her Poetry, Nancy Martin11.. Gujarat — Krishna in the Poetry of Narasimha Mehta, Neelima Shukla Bhatt12.. Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu — At Play in the Forests of the Lord: The Gopalavimshati of Vedanta Deshika, Steven P. HopkinsSection Three: Philosophy and Theology13.. Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: The Supreme Brahman in Human Form, Lance E. Nelson14. Ramanuja and the Meaning of Krishna's Descent and Embodiment on this Earth, Francis X. Clooney, S.J.15.. Madhva Vedanta and Krishna, Deepak Sharma16.. The Six Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvamin, Satyanarayana Dasa17.. A Selection from the Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin, David Haberman18.. The Divine Feminine in the Theology of Krishna, Graham SchweigSection Four: Hagiography and Praxis19.. Kumbhandas: the Devotee as Salt of the Earth, Richard Barz20.. A Vallabhite Guidebook for the Worship of Krishna's Divine Images, Paul Arney21.. Vaishnava Pilgrimage: Select Puranic Texts, Paul Sherbow22.. Chaitanya Vaishnavism and the Holy Names, Neal Delmonico

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a fine overview of the diversity, strengths, and weaknesses of the current state of American research on Krishna. ...Krishna: A Sourcebook is to be recommended to all those interested in this Hindu deity. Even experts in the area are sure to discover gems as they move through the useful research found in this volume." —Journal of the American Oriental Society

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