Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata

by Bibek Debroy

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190279184
• ISBN13: 9780190279189
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"