[INDOLOGY] Query: Date of the Bhagavatam

Howard Resnick hr at ivs.edu
Tue Jul 21 15:25:18 UTC 2015


Thank you. Does anyone have a reference or link to Narayanam’s text?

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 4:57 PM, edbryant at rci.rutgers.edu wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi George,
> 
> See an article I wrote in the Journal of Vaishnava Studies 11:1 Fall
> (2002): 51-80, (which also summarized all the dating attempts known to me
> at the time ).  As for Hardy's thesis of a Southern provenance and date
> based on the Alvars, if I am not mistaken Vasudha Narayanam has critiqued
> that, so perhaps you can get a reference to her review.
> 
> Best wishes,  EB
> 
> 
> 
>> The Bhaagavata was for long regarded as belonging to around the 12th
>> century. later an MS of the 12th century was found. The Bh. then should be
>> earlier by a few centuries. The exact date is difficult to determine.
>> Best
>> DB
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:45 AM, George Hart <glhart at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would be most grateful if someone could post (or email me) the latest
>>> ideas about the date of the Bhagavatam. Working mostly with Tamil, I’m
>>> not
>>> in the loop about such matters and I need to say something in the
>>> introduction to my translation of the *Akanāṉūṟu*. (Of course, I
>>> will
>>> acknowledge any help). Thanks. George Hart
>>> 
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