L'Enfance de Krishna: Traduction des chapitres 30 a 78 (ed. cr.) du Harivamsa.

• Author: Klostermaier, Klaus K.

The author informs us in his preface that the work received its first impulse from a seminar on Krsna directed by Prof. Olivier Lacombe in 1972-73 and subsequent studies of the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana under the guidance of Prof. A. M. Esnoul, who eventually became supervisor of his doctoral thesis, in which the focus shifted to the Krsna of the Harivamsa. The French translation of the text of chapters 30-78 is prefaced by a sixty-page essay, "Introduction to the Harivamsa," in which the author collects and sifts all information about the text and the history of the Harivamsa and offers a brief conspectus of the study of Krsna's infancy as narrated by the Harivamsa. The translation itself is careful, exact and readable; useful footnotes explain names, events and offer parallels. The eight-page bibliography lists text-editions, translations, secondary literature. The thirty-three-page glossary and mythological index explains Sanskrit terms and names and constitutes a...