The Bhagavata Purana retells Vishnu's descents and gives Krishna's childhood and loves their fullest telling; its tenth book becomes the seedbed of Krishna devotion, quoted and sung wherever Krishna is worshipped.
Tagged: Hindu Vaishnavism
The Event
- Date
- c. 400–450 CE (approximate)
- Era
- Classical; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- India; today India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Vaishnavism
- Key texts
- Bhagavata Purana
How the Tradition Tells It
The table's early date follows the traditional scholarly range, and much modern scholarship dates the Bhagavata Purana's composition several centuries later, most often to the ninth or tenth century in the Tamil country; the event's dating precision is recorded as approximate for this reason.
Primary Sources
- Bhagavata Purana, book 10
Secondary Sources
- Bryant, Krishna: A Sourcebook (Oxford, 2007)
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
Provenance: HIST-0310; confidence 0.85; accessed 2026-10-27.
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