Krishna : a sourcebook

590 Pages·2007·3.01 MB·English

by  (Hindu deity) Krishna

Krishna
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Krishna
A Sourcebook
Edited by
edwin f. bryant
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2007
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Contents
Contributors, ix
Introduction, 3
PART I Classical Source Material
1. Krishna in the Mahabharata: The Death of Karna, 23
Alf Hiltebeitel
2. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, 77
RobertN. Minor
3. The Harivamsa: The Dynasty of Krishna, 95
EkkehardLorenz
4. Krishna in the Tenth Book of the Bhagavata Purana, 111
EdwinF. Bryant
PART II Regional Literary Expressions
5. Orissa: Shri Krishna Jagannatha: The Mushali-parva
from Sarala’s Mahabharata, 139
Bijoy M. Misra
6. Assam: Shankaradeva’s Parijata Harana Nata, 163
William L.Smith
vi contents
7. Tamil Nadu: Weaving Garlands in Tamil:
The Poetry of the Alvars, 187
Vasudha Narayanan
8. Maharashtra:GameswithGod:Sakhya-bhaktiinMarathi
SantPoetry,205
VidyutAklujkar
9. Braj: Fishing in Sur’s Ocean, 223
John Stratton Hawley
10. Rajasthan: Mirabai and Her Poetry, 241
Nancy M.Martin
11. Gujarat: Govinda’s Glory: Krishna-Lila in the songs of
Narasinha Mehta, 255
Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
12. Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu: At Play in the Forests
of the Lord: The Gopalavimshati of Vedantadeshika, 285
Steven P. Hopkins
PART III Philosophy and Theology
13. Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: The Supreme Brahman
in Human Form, 309
Lance E. Nelson
14. Ramanuja and the Meaning of Krishna’s Descent
and Embodiment on This Earth, 329
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
15. Madhva Vedanta and Krishna, 357
DeepakSarma
16. The Six Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvami, 373
Satyanarayana Dasa
17. A Selection from the Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin:
The Foundational Emotions (Sthayi-bhavas), 409
DavidL. Haberman
18. The Divine Feminine in the Theology of
Krishna, 441
Graham M.Schweig
contents vii
PART IV Hagiography and Praxis
19. Kumbhandas: The Devotee as Salt of the Earth, 477
Richard Barz
20. The Bade Shikshapatra: A Vallabhite Guide to the
Worship of Krishna’s Divine Images, 505
PaulArney
21. Vaishnava Pilgrimage: Select Puranic Texts, 537
PaulH. Sherbow
22. Chaitanya Vaishnavism and the Holy Names, 549
Neal Delmonico
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Contributors
VidyutAklujkarisaresearchassociateattheCentreforIndiaand
SouthAsiaResearchattheUniversityofBritishColumbia.Herba-
chelor’sandmaster’sdegreeswereinSanskritfromPoonaUniversity,
Pune,India,andherPh.D.inPhilosophyisfromtheUniversityof
BritishColumbia.ShehastaughtHindi,Indianliterature,andIndian
mythologyattheUBC,andSanskritatHarvardUniversity.Herareas
ofresearchareepicsinSanskrit,particularlyAnanda-ramayana,and
literatureinSanskrit,Hindi,andMarathi.Inadditiontomorethan
twenty-fiveresearchpublicationsininternationaljournalsandan-
thologies,shehassixbooksoffiction,essays,andtranslationspub-
lishedtodate.ShehaseditedabookonGoanKonkaniproverbsandan
anthologyofMarathishortstories.In2005,shewashonoredbythe
BMMawardofexcellenceforherwritinginMarathibytheBrihan
MaharashtraMandalofNorthAmerica.Shehasbeentheco-editor,
editor,andnowservesastheconsultingeditorforEkata,thequarterly
journalofMarathiliteraturepublishedfromToronto,Canada.
Paul Arney was educated at Columbia University and the Austra-
lian National University. He is an independent scholar based in
Perth, Western Australia.
Richard Barz has a Ph.D. in Hindi from the University of Chicago.
He is a member of the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian
National University where he teaches Hindi and Urdu. He is the
author of The Bhakti Sect of Vallabhacarya (1992), An Introduc-
tion to Hindi and Urdu (2000), and other books and articles on