28%OFF
The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings
Ravi Gupta
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169011
SKU
V9780231169011
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ravi Gupta
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings
The work gives the reader a superb sense of what the whole of the Bhagavata is all about.
Graham M. Schweig, author-translator of Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song The authors have provided an excellent sampling of the text.
Edwin Bryant, Rutgers University Nowadays the Bhagavad Gita is regarded as the central text of Hinduism, but ... Read more
Graham M. Schweig, author-translator of Bhagavad Gita: The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song The authors have provided an excellent sampling of the text.
Edwin Bryant, Rutgers University Nowadays the Bhagavad Gita is regarded as the central text of Hinduism, but ... Read more