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The Bhagavata Purana - Selected Readings by Ravi Gupta (Author),‎ Kenneth Valpey (Author)

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: Columbia University Press; Reprint edition (November 29, 2016)
ISBN: 978-0231169011
Paperback: 328 pages
About: This annotated translation and detailed analysis show how one text can have such enduring appeal. Key selections from the Bhagavata Purana are faithfully translated, while all remaining sections of the Purana are concisely summarized, providing the reader with a continuous and comprehensive narrative. Detailed endnotes explain unfamiliar concepts and several essays elucidate the rich philosophical and religious debates found in the Sanskrit commentaries. Together with the multidisciplinary readings contained in the companion volume The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (Columbia, 2013), this book makes a central Hindu masterpiece more accessible to English-speaking audiences and more meaningful to scholars of Hindu literature, philosophy, and religion...

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