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    Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Hello all ^^

    Which book is it that is all based on krishna's life? I don't want to get the iskcon one cause of the translations and the commatery stuff. 
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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Namaste Moonlight.

    Canto X of the Srimad Bhagavatam. It's a great read.

    It seems Srila Prabhupada has the market cornered on translations. My copy of the book is at home, but I'll bet it's Srila Prabhupada. Though I don't recall anything but the text... no transliteration or commentary. I'll have to check which version it is. I didn't know very much about the different translations at the time I got it. Here's an on-line version to give you something to go on.
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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    The most popular is the tenth canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam. Another text that is centered around Krishna lila is the Garga Samhita. The Mahabharata and various puranas also have stories about Krishna.

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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Namaste,

    Good to see you back dear friend Sahas.
    We missed you.

    Pranam.

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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Hello lord ^.^

    Unless it's part of the original writing:

    Yogamāyā is the principal potency of the Personality of Godhead. In the Vedas it is stated that the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has multipotencies: parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].
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    Hello  Sahas ^^

    I was planing on getting The Mahabharata but thought it might be another meaning for Bhagavad-gita. 
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    Hello Sahas ^^

    I was planing on getting The Mahabharata but thought it might be another meaning for Bhagavad-gita.


    The more you study the Mahabharata, the better you'll be able to place the Bhagavad Gita in context.

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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Namaste.

    Remember the discussion on the Mahabharat tv series? Well, I was finally able to download the whole thing... all 94 episodes. It's taking up >20G of my hard drive! I have yet to watch it in its entirety. It's absolutely classic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TouchedbytheLord View Post
    Namaste.

    Remember the discussion on the Mahabharat tv series? Well, I was finally able to download the whole thing... all 94 episodes. It's taking up >20G of my hard drive! I have yet to watch it in its entirety. It's absolutely classic.
    I just found out it's a very long read according to the details:

    The Mahabharata is at the very heart of Indian culture - in religion, myth and legend. One of the oldest stories in the world, with the first known written versions dating back to the fifth century BC, it is also the longest poem ever written - at more than one hundred thousand stanzas long it is fifteen times the length of the Bible.
    I'm better off getting the DVD instead lol

    http://m.hmv.com/product/details/377296/
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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Quote Originally Posted by Moonlight View Post
    I just found out it's a very long read according to the details:



    I'm better off getting the DVD instead lol

    http://m.hmv.com/product/details/377296/
    100,000 verses, I think.

    But that's not the one I was referring to. This is it. I think it ran for about three months or something like that:

    http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=mh_lolz
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    Re: Which book contains Krishna's life?

    Quote Originally Posted by TouchedbytheLord View Post
    Namaste Moonlight.

    Canto X of the Srimad Bhagavatam. It's a great read.

    It seems Srila Prabhupada has the market cornered on translations. My copy of the book is at home, but I'll bet it's Srila Prabhupada. Though I don't recall anything but the text... no transliteration or commentary. I'll have to check which version it is. I didn't know very much about the different translations at the time I got it. Here's an on-line version to give you something to go on.
    For curiosity's and accuracy's sake I checked my copies:

    Mahabharata & Ramayana - William Buck.
    Bhagavad Gita & Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran.
    Srimad Bhagavatam - Edwin Bryant.
    śivasya hridayam viṣṇur viṣṇoscha hridayam śivaḥ

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