Bhagavata Purana
The Srimad Bhagavatam, most beloved of the Puranas: twelve books and some 18,000 verses on Krishna and the path of bhakti, whose tenth book tells Krishna's life. Composed c. 9th-10th century CE.
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Appears in
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
…arks, the eighteen great Puranas, the vast cycles of cosmic time, the Bhagavata Purana and the love of Krishna, the Devi Mahatmya and the supreme Goddess, and the living, ever-rewritten Purana that became the s…
- Who is Krishna? Deities
The cowherd of Vrindavana The Bhagavata Purana , composed in its received form around the 9th or 10th century CE, most likely in the south, is the text that made Krishna the figure the world now pictures.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The greatest of the stories If one Purana stands above the rest in reach and influence, the tradition and the scholars agree it is the Bhagavata Purana , the Srimad Bhagavatam .
- The Book of the Lord Treatise
In answer, the sage Suka, son of Vyasa, begins to speak, and what he speaks, across those seven days, is the Bhagavata Purana .
- What is Ganesh Chaturthi? Worship
The proof-text the tradition reaches for is the Syamantaka jewel episode, told in the Bhagavata Purana , Canto 10, chapters 56 and 57.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
He is also a monster, and the Bhagavata Purana does not spare the reader.
- Why is Krishna blue? Journal
In the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana , the sage Gargamuni comes to name the child, and he says something strange about his colour.