An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c14.9.2

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to all men and women of the four castes, 87; three paths to release, 88; theology of the Gītā, 89; its bhakti, 220, 243; secret of its power, 90 f.; upholds the dharma, 89; originally heterodox, 91; now orthodox, 128; theories of its origin, 50, 91, 366; date, 78, 86, 366. Is there Christian influence in it? 92; held to be revelation of second grade (smṛti), 173; forms part of the Canon of the Vedānta, 173; influence of the Gītā, 114, 128, 144, 145, 153; commentaries, 171, 241, 242. Bhagavadviṣayam, 380. Bhagavān, Blessed Lord, 87. Bhāgavata (from Bhagavān), a devotee of the Lord. Used of Śaivas, 82 n. 1; used of Vaiṣṇavas generally, 142; used of a special group of Vaiṣṇavas, see Bhāgavatas; used of a singer-preacher in South India, 302. Bhāgavata-bhāṣya, by Viṣṇusvāmī, 238, 305, 375. Bhāgavata-bhāvārtha-dīpikā, 297, 374. Bhāgavata-laghu-ṭīkā, 375. Bhāgavata Māhātmya, 232, 372. Bhāgavata P., 139, 372; characteristics, 229 f.; deals with Kṛṣṇa’s youth, 229; a late work, 178; erroneously attributed to Vopadeva, 231, 269, 359; the latest of the Purāṇas, 231; date, 232; place of origin, 232; its bhakti, 220, 229, 242; its eroticism, 230; the love of the gopīs a symbol of spiritual devotion, 230; sprang from the Bhāgavata community, and is their chief scripture, 229, 233; its immense influence, 220, 235, 269, 301, 302, 308, 345; tends towards Braj translations, 317; Kanarese translations, 300; an anthology of its utterances on bhakti, 302.