Krishna, Lord or Avatara?: the relationship between Krishna and Vishnu

 ( Book Product ) 

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.

• ISBN bar code 9780700712816 ξ1 registered April 04 2012
  
• ISBN bar code 9780700712816 ξ2 registered April 04 2012
  
• Product category is Book

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.

^ Freda Matchett (2015). Krishna, Lord or Avatara?: the relationship between Krishna and Vishnu, 9780700712816. ISBN 9780700712816 (revised Sep 2015)
^ Freda Matchett (2012). Krishna, Lord or Avatara?: the relationship between Krishna and Vishnu, 9780700712816. Wiki. ISBN 9780700712816 (revised May 2012)