Hindu religious traditions
Harivamshaहरिवंश
Epic supplement
A supplement to the Mahabharata with genealogies and narratives concerning Krishna and his lineage.
STORY & TRADITION
The world of Harivamsha.
A supplement to the Mahabharata with genealogies and narratives concerning Krishna and his lineage.
The Sacred Library
Details & context.
- Tradition dependence
- High — compare the identified textual or regional account.
- Library category
- Itihasa
- Form / textual family
- Epic supplement
- Traditional attribution
- An inherited textual tradition; no single historical author is established here.
- Subject & teachings
- A supplement to the Mahabharata with genealogies and narratives concerning Krishna and his lineage.
- Structure
- Consult the identified edition for chapters, recension and numbering.
- Associated deities / figures
- Mahabharata; Krishna; Dvaraka
- Textual relationships
- Mahabharata
- Historical context
- Composition, transmission and redaction must be distinguished; no unsupported exact date is assigned.
- Reading notes
- Read the Sanskrit with an identified translation. Commentary is presented by its own school, not as the only interpretation.
- Tradition notes
- Names and accounts can vary by recension, region and commentary. This entry distinguishes attested details from identifications still requiring a passage-level source.
FOLLOW THE THREADS
Connected worlds.
4 connected profiles. Every path leads to an original record.
The Sacred Library2
Characters & Cosmic Entities1
Earthly Sacred Locations1
Image credit.
Bhagavata Purana manuscript, West Bengal, 16th century (?), LACMA M.88.134.4. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Robert Slusser. Image courtesy LACMA, public domain.
Original source · Public domain, released with LACMA's Public Domain High Resolution Image Available designationResized and converted to WebP.
READ THE SOURCES
Texts & references.
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Sanskrit Documents — Text editions
Sanskrit electronic texts; check the individual file’s edition and contributors.
Multiple traditions · A text directory is a finding aid. Precise passage-level claims are identified separately when available.Reference overview. Consult the identified text and passage; unestablished fields are explicitly marked.