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.
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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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Associate Professor of HinduismAssociate Professor of Hinduism, Rutgers University
General Introduction
Section One: Classical Source Material
1.: Alf Hiltebeitel: Krishna in the Mahabharata: the Death of Karna
2.: Robert N. Minor: Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita
3.: Ekkhard Lorenz: Harivamsha: The Dynasty of Krishna
4.: Edwin F. Bryant: Krishna and the Bhagavata Purana
Section Two: Regional Literary Expressions
5.: Bijoy M. Misra: Orissa -- Shri Krishna Jagannath: Translation of Mushali Parva from Sarala's Mahabharata
6.: William L. Smith: Assam -- Shankaradeva's Parijata Harana Nata
7.: Vasudha Narayanan: Tamil Nadu -- Weaving Garlands in Tamil: the Poetry of the Alvars
8: Vidyut Aklujkar: Maharashtra -- Games with God: Sakhya Bhakti in Marathi Sant Poetry
9.: John Stratton Hawley: Vraj -- Fishing in Sur's Ocean
10.: Nancy Martin: Rajasthan -- Mirabhai and her Poetry
11.: Neelima Shukla Bhatt: Gujarat -- Krishna in the Poetry of Narasimha Mehta
12.: Steven P. Hopkins: Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu -- At Play in the Forests of the Lord: The Gopalavimshati of Vedanta Deshika
Section Three: Philosophy and Theology
13.: Lance E. Nelson: Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: The Supreme Brahman in Human Form
14.: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.: Ramanuja and the Meaning of Krishna's Descent and Embodiment on this Earth
15.: Deepak Sharma: Madhva Vedanta and Krishna
16.: Satyanarayana Dasa: The Six Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvamin
17.: David Haberman: A Selection from the Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin
18.: Graham Schweig: The Divine Feminine in the Theology of Krishna
Section Four: Hagiography and Praxis
19.: Richard Barz: Kumbhandas: the Devotee as Salt of the Earth
20.: Paul Arney: A Vallabhite Guidebook for the Worship of Krishna's Divine Images
21.: Paul Sherbow: Vaishnava Pilgrimage: Select Puranic Texts
22.: Neal Delmonico: Chaitanya Vaishnavism and the Holy Names
