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The 'Fifth Veda' of Hinduism: poetry, philosophy and devotion in the Bhagavata Purana

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of modern religionPublication details: I.B. Tauris Publishers 2016 LondonDescription: x, 229 p.: ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781784531997
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.5925 T4F4
Summary: The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central, and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for twenty years of the Bhagavata Purana (often called the Fifth Veda ) and its different layers of meaning. He addresses its lyrical meditations on the activities of Krishna (the avatar of Lord Vishnu), the central place it affords to the doctrine of bhakti (religious devotion), and its treatment of older Vedic traditions of knowledge. At the same time, he places this subtle, poetical book within the context of the wider Hindu scriptures and the other Puranas, including the similar but less grand and significant Vishnu Purana. The author argues that the Bhagavata Purana is a unique work that represents the meeting place of two great orthodox Hindu traditions, the Vedic-Upanishadic and the Aesthetic. As such, it is one of India s greatest theological treatises. This book illuminates its character and continuing significance." https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/the-fifth-veda-of-hinduism-9789389812800/
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Associating the Bhāgavata Purāṇa with Rasa Theory
Chapter 2: The aesthetic doctrine of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Chapter 3: Notions of personal divinity in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Chapter 4: A textual encounter
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central, and popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar Theodor here offers the first analysis for twenty years of the Bhagavata Purana (often called the Fifth Veda ) and its different layers of meaning. He addresses its lyrical meditations on the activities of Krishna (the avatar of Lord Vishnu), the central place it affords to the doctrine of bhakti (religious devotion), and its treatment of older Vedic traditions of knowledge. At the same time, he places this subtle, poetical book within the context of the wider Hindu scriptures and the other Puranas, including the similar but less grand and significant Vishnu Purana. The author argues that the Bhagavata Purana is a unique work that represents the meeting place of two great orthodox Hindu traditions, the Vedic-Upanishadic and the Aesthetic. As such, it is one of India s greatest theological treatises. This book illuminates its character and continuing significance."

https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/the-fifth-veda-of-hinduism-9789389812800/

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