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Api Sa
Arjuna Trees
Author_Freda Matchett
avatar doctrine
Ca Tani
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Category=QR
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comparative mythology
cosmic
Cosmic Child
Cosmic Man
Cowherd Boy
Cowherd Women
Earth's Burden
Elephant King
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god
Higher Connotations
Hindu theology
kali
Lunar Dynasties
Manu Svayambhuva
ocean
Pi San
Plain Unvarnished Tale
Prahl Ada
Prahlada
puranic literature
puranic studies for postgraduate research
religious narrative analysis
Sandalwood Tree
Sanskrit religious texts
sleep
supreme
Supreme Brahman
Supreme God
Supreme Reality
triple
Triple World
Wider Issues
world
Yadava Clan
yogic
Yogic Sleep
Young Men
yuga
Product details
- ISBN 9781138862388
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a study of three Sanskrit texts, the Harivamsa, the Visnupurana, and the Bhagavatabelonging to the puranic genre, the chief source of knowledge of the origins of popular Hinduism. It treats them as integrated compositions and displays the theological motives and creative skill which have gone into the making of them. It shows how all three texts contain narratives which present Krishna as one of several subordinate manifestations (avataras) of Vishnu. All three use much the same traditional material, yet each, by arranging this material in its own way, presents a distinctive view of Krishna, and the most influential of them, the Bhagavata , builds up a world view in which Krishna, not Vishnu, is supreme.
