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== Literature == |
== Literature == |
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The [[Bhagavata Purana]], as well as the [[Harivamsa|Harivamsha]], a text that supplements the [[Mahabharata]], are the primary sources that describe the legend of Gopala Krishna. The tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana, called the Krishna-charita, offers details regarding the childhood of Krishna as the foster-son of Nanda and Yashoda, his life of a cowherd in Vraja, his defeat of the malicious [[Putana]] and [[Kaliya]], and his relationship with the women of the region.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Upinder |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cvauDwAAQBAJ&dq=cowherd+krishna&pg=PA611 |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century (PB) |date=2009 |publisher=Pearson India |isbn=978-93-325-6996-6 |pages=611 |language=en}}</ref> Indologist [[Wendy Doniger]] states that the Harivamsha, composed two centuries after the Mahabharata, integrates the mythologies of the powerful deity and prince who appears in the latter epic, with the folk and vernacular stories of Krishna as a cowherd child. Thus, she believes that his narrative is composed as God pretending to be a prince, who is pretending to be a cowherd.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doniger |first=Wendy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNsXZkdHvXUC&dq=cowherd+krishna&pg=PA477 |title=The Hindus: An Alternative History |date=2010-09-30 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-959334-7 |pages=477 |language=en}}</ref> |
The [[Bhagavata Purana]], speculated to have been composed in [[South India]] during the 9th-10th centuries CE, as well as the [[Harivamsa|Harivamsha]], a text that supplements the [[Mahabharata]], are the primary sources that describe the legend of Gopala Krishna. The tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana, called the Krishna-charita, offers details regarding the childhood of Krishna as the foster-son of Nanda and Yashoda, his life of a cowherd in Vraja, his defeat of the malicious [[Putana]] and [[Kaliya]], and his relationship with the women of the region.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Upinder |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cvauDwAAQBAJ&dq=cowherd+krishna&pg=PA611 |title=A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century (PB) |date=2009 |publisher=Pearson India |isbn=978-93-325-6996-6 |pages=611 |language=en}}</ref> Indologist [[Wendy Doniger]] states that the Harivamsha, composed two centuries after the Mahabharata, integrates the mythologies of the powerful deity and prince who appears in the latter epic, with the folk and vernacular stories of Krishna as a cowherd child. Thus, she believes that his narrative is composed as God pretending to be a prince, who is pretending to be a cowherd.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doniger |first=Wendy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNsXZkdHvXUC&dq=cowherd+krishna&pg=PA477 |title=The Hindus: An Alternative History |date=2010-09-30 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-959334-7 |pages=477 |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Legend == |
== Legend == |