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Moonlight
30 December 2011, 06:19 AM
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. 

Jainarayan
30 December 2011, 08:28 AM
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.

Sahasranama
30 December 2011, 10:37 AM
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.

Believer
30 December 2011, 11:35 AM
Namaste,

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

Pranam.

Moonlight
30 December 2011, 12:04 PM
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].

http://vedabase.com/en/kb/2

Hello  Sahas ^^

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

Sahasranama
30 December 2011, 12:07 PM
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.

Jainarayan
30 December 2011, 01:41 PM
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.

Moonlight
30 December 2011, 02:56 PM
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/

Jainarayan
30 December 2011, 03:42 PM
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=PLEC3716D9C460D4E4&feature=mh_lolz

Jainarayan
30 December 2011, 07:27 PM
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.

Moonlight
31 December 2011, 04:30 AM
Hello lord ^^
I got the Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran. And planing on getting the Upanishads. I like his translations.

I'm in 19 mins of the first video you linked and I had to ask this cause it's bugging me now lol... Is it written that Ganga (the woman) walked on water?

Update:
completed the first ep and it's... Kinda disturbing but at the same time there's a good lession on the subject too.
Just like that dude who promised that what ever comes out of his door he will send it as a burnt offering to god and it turned out to be his kid. Sad story but the teaching is very good. Think before you promise anything! >=(

Jogesh
31 December 2011, 02:42 PM
Narayaneeyam is a highly devotional text. The author, Sri Meppattur Narayana Bhattathiri, was cured of his Vatha Roga (rheumatism), attained great devotion and the vision of the Lord, by composing and singing Narayaneeyam in front of the Lord at the temple of Guruvayur.

There are eighteen main Purarnas, in the Hindu scriptures. The most important is Sreemad Bhagavatham. It has 18000 slokas. Narayaneeyam is a condensation of this vast Purana, and contains only 1036 slokas, with its philosophical and devotional contents intact.

http://www.narayaneeyam-firststep.org/index.html

saidevo
31 December 2011, 09:48 PM
namaste everyone.

Some links for those interested in native translations:

rAmAyaNam
RAMAYANA retold by C. Rajagopalachari
http://www.gita-society.com/section3/ramayana.htm
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/resources.htm

Verse-by-verse translation
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/index.html
http://www.ramayanaepic.com/

mahAbhAratam
Translation in prose by KM Ganguli
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14126117/Mahabharata-Kisari-Mohan-Ganguli
http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924071123115
http://www.aryabharati.org/mahabharat/mahabharen.asp
http://www.mahabharataonline.com/
http://mahabharata-resources.org/

Another purANam that talks about shrIKRShNa's life is <b>harivaMsham</b>:
http://mahabharata-resources.org/harivamsa/harivamsa-cs-index.html

Aryasangh
14 March 2012, 05:28 AM
Search for Historical Krishna is also a must read.