Krishna A Sourcebook [Paperback]

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.

General Introduction
Section One: Classical Source Material
1. Krishna in the Mahabharata: the Death of Karna,Alf Hiltebeitel
2. Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita,Robert N. Minor
3. Harivamsha: The Dynasty of Krishna,Ekkhard Lorenz
4. Krishna and the Bhagavata Purana,Edwin F. Bryant
Section Two: Regional Literary Expressions
5. Orissa -- Shri Krishna Jagannath: Translation of Mushali Parva from Sarala's Mahabharata,Bijoy M. Misra
6. Assam -- Shankaradeva's Parijata Harana Nata,William L. Smith
7. Tamil Nadu -- Weaving Garlands in Tamil: the Poetry of the Alvars,Vasudha Narayanan
8. Maharashtra -- Games with God: Sakhya Bhakti in Marathi Sant Poetry,Vidyut Aklujkar
9. Vraj -- Fishing in Sur's Ocean,John Stratton Hawley
10. Rajasthan -- Mirabhai and her Poetry,Nancy Martin
11. Gujarat -- Krishna in the Poetry of Narasimha Mehta,Neelima Shukla Bhatt
12. Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu -- At Play in the Forests of the Lord: The Gopalavimshati of Vedanta Deshika,Steven P. Hopkins
Section Three: Philosophy and Theology
13. Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: The Supreme Brahman in Human Form,Lance E. Nelson
14. Ramanuja and the Meaning of Krishna's Descent and Embodiment on this Earth,Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
15. Madhva Vedanta and Krishna,Deepak Sharma
16. The Six Sandarbhas l#O