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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Preface ix
1 Introduction
1 The landscape 1
2 The local inhabitants 4
3 The devotional sects 8
4 Varieties of pilgrimage 12
5 Rules and regulations 19
2 The myth
1 The scriptural sources 22
2 The setting 27
3 The birth of Krishna 30
4 Krishna overturns a cart (sakatarohana) 32
5 Putana (putanavadha) 32
6 The whirlwind demon (trnavartavadha) 32
7 Garga's visit 32
8 Krishna eats dirt 33
9 Krishna is tied to a mortar (ulukhalabandhana) 33
10 The encampment is moved to Vrindaban and other demons attack
Krishna 34
11 Brahma spirits away the calves and cowherd boys 34
12 The defeat of Kaliya (kaliyadamana) 34
13 Dhenuka (dhenukasuravadha) 35
14 Two forest fires (davanalajdavagni) 35
15 Pralamba (pralambasuravadha) 35
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