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Krishna's Lineage - The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata (Hardcover)
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Krishna's Lineage - The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata (Hardcover)
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Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the
Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the
great god Vishnu's avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a
comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the
Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad
Gita. Krishna is born in Mathura (some 85 miles south of
present-day Delhi). As an infant he is smuggled out of Mathura for
his own safety. He and his brother Baladeva grow up among cowherds
in the forest, where between them they perform many miraculous
deeds and kill many dangerous demons, before returning to Mathura
where they kill the evil King Kamsa and his cronies. Thereafter,
Krishna is the hero and unofficial leader of his people the
Yadava-Vrishnis. When Mathura is besieged by enemies, Krishna leads
his people to abandon the town and migrate west, founding the
dazzling new city of Dvaraka by the sea. Krishna then repeatedly
travels away from that base repeatedly to perform heroic deeds
benefitting those in need - including his own people, his more
immediate family, and the gods. After narrating the stories of
Krishna, the Harivamsha ends by finishing the story of Janamejaya
with which the Mahabharata began. The Harivamsha is a powerhouse of
Hindu mythology and a classic of world literature. It begins by
contextualising Vishnu's appearance as Krishna in several ways, in
the process presenting a variety of cosmogonical, cosmological,
genealogical, mythological, theological, and karmalogical
materials. It then narrates Krishna's birth and adventures in
detail. Presenting a wide variety of exciting stories in a poetic
register that makes extensive use of natural imagery, the
Harivamsha is a neglected literary gem and an ideal starting-point
for readers new to Indian literature.
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