Bhagavata+Purana

== = = =//[|Bhâgavata Purâna]//=

**W**elcome to the site of the S'rîmad Bhâgavatam (or the   //Bhâgavata Purâna//   ). Here you will find the complete and up-to-date version maintained in Sanskrit, English and Dutch of this most important sacred book of stories of India. India knows many //purânas//  or storybooks, but this collection of stories is generally accepted as being the most complete and important. The book, arranged in twelve so-called //cantos// , comprises 335 chapters with about 18000 verses. Truly a Bible thus. It is that collection of stories which stresses the prime importance of the maintaining aspect of God personified by the transcendental form of **Lord Vishnu**. The representative of Vishnu on earth is named the Fortunate One in this book. We know Him specifically by the names of **Lord Râma and Lord Krishna**. The Fortunate One is thus the Lord who is known in different forms or incarnations, but also the devotees are part of His reality and are also called //bhâgavata//  when they are pure. Thus there is the Lord in His many appearances, the devotee with as many faces and the book. They are all called Fortunate. Fortunate means to be of the opulence, or to carry, or live by, the fullness of God's riches, beauty, fame, power, knowledge and detachment.

[|Introduction]
**[|Canto 1]** **[|Creation]**

**[|Canto 2]** **[|The Cosmic Manifestation]**

**[|Canto 3]** **[|The Status Quo]**

**[|Canto 4]** **[|The Creation of the Fourth Order]**

**[|Canto 5]** **[|The Creative Impetus]**

**[|Canto 6]** **[|Prescribed Duties for Mankind]**

**[|Canto 7]** **[|The Science of God]**

**[|Canto 8]** **[|Withdrawal of the Cosmic Creations]**

**[|Canto 9]** **[|Liberation]**

**[|Canto 10]** **[|The Summum Bonum]**

**[|Canto 11]** **[|General History]**

**[|Canto 12]** **[|The Age of Deterioration]**