UCC ID: UCCIK-425039

NCC ID: UCCIK-14.195b.5

Name Of The Text: ब्रह्मवैवर्तपुराण(Brahmavaivartapurāṇa)

Name Of The Author: अज्ञात(Unknown)

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Details Of The Text: the 10th among the 18 Mahāpurāṇas; Composed after 8th Cent. a popular text of the Rādhākṛṣṇa Cult elevating Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme God; divided into four parts (276 chs.) ̶ Brahma (30 chs.). Prakṛti (67 chs.), Gaṇapati (46 chs.) and Śri kṛṣṇajanma (133 chs.); total number of verses given as 18000 in Matsyapurāṇa and Nāradapurāṇa; the Kṛṣṇajanmakhaṇḍa ch. 132 gives a table of its contents; not q. by early nibandha writers; had undergone many changes; on the quotations from this Purāṇa in dh. texts but not found in the present Purāṇa text see R. C. Hazra, Studies in Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs pp. 166 ̶ 67. On the Apocryphal character of the extant text see A. S. Gupta, Purāṇa III. 1. pp. 92 ̶ 101. On the religion and philosophy as described in the Purāṇa see Bulletin of the Chunilal Gandhi Vidyabhavan No. 16 ̶ 17. pp. 42 ̶ 74. For a brief note on the contents see Wint., HIL. I. pp. 567 ̶ 9. For mss. of Kṛṣṇajanmakhaṇḍa see also NCC. IV. p. 310b; for Prakṛtikhaṇḍa see NCC. XII. p. 218b; for Gaṇapatikhaṇḍa see also Gaṇeśakhaṇḍa, NCC. V. pp. 269b ̶ 270a. Ptd. (1) in 26 adhys. London, 1809. (2) Ex. Officina Academica; Berlin. 1829. (3) With Bengali C. by Mathuranatha Tarkaratna. Calcutta, 1881 ̶ 85. (4) Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Sarasvati Press. Calcutta, 1888. in 2 vols. (5) Venk. Press: Bombay, 1889. (6) Vangavāsi Press: Calcutta, 1906. See IO. Ptd. Bks. 1938. p. 534. Transl.: English: (1) by Rajendra Nath Sen. in 4 pts. Sac. Bks. of the Hindus. Indian Press: Allahabad, 1919 ̶ 22. (2) Transl. by H. H. Wilson. See Oxf. II. 1205 (Kṛṣṇajanma.). 1210. Bengali: By Vrajanātha Vidyānātha, Calcutta, 1881 ̶ 90. Telugu: By Chilakapaṭi Veṅkaṭarāmānuja Sarma, Madras, 1905. See Br. Mus. Ptd. Bks. 1906 ̶ 28, 795.

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