The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana Motilal Banarsidass Dharma 121 3

Dharma 121 3

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Bhattacharyya's philosophy has been formulated

The Bhagavatam does not describe the universe of galaxies and quasars

Collaboration between an anthropologist sympathetic to history and Indology and an Indologist sympathetic to anthropology is hardly strange nowadays

The Cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana Motilal Banarsidass Dharma 121 3From the flat earth to the sun's chariot traditional spiritual texts seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no exception. However, a closer examination of this text reveals unexpected depths of knowledge in ancient cosmology. This shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a