The Bhagavata Purana is a Hindu scripture.
The most essential book for the worship of the deity Krishna as the one Supreme Being is a sectarian religious text.
- Internal evidence suggests it was composed in southern India in the ninth or tenth centuries, putting it well behind the other puranas.
- The majority of the book concentrates on Krishna's upbringing, childhood, and adolescence in the hamlet of Brindavan, although it pays little attention to his subsequent adventures as a king and hero.
The tenth book of the purana is most known for depicting Krishna's amorous adventures with the local herd ladies (gopis) as they spend the evenings in a circle dance (ras lila) on the Yamuna River's banks.
- Krishna is shown as a deity who is always interacting with the world throughout the book.
- The ultimate felicity for Krishna's followers (bhakta) is the chance to participate in that heavenly pastime (lila).
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