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Balarama [microform] : Change and Continuity in an Early Indian Cult

出版	Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2004
ISBN	04940428429780494042847
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wFHZygAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A study of the Balarama stories also contributes to current scholarship on the textual history of the Hindu puranas. In the course of this thesis I analyze the stories divided into a series of plots and compare them across the different texts. I demonstrate that changes to these basic plots indicate the evolution of the story. I therefore propose that the more different a story from the basic story the later it must be while the less the different the story the closer contemporary it must be. I take as the basic story that is the HV, which scholars agree is earlier than any of the puranas. My working hypothesis is that the further a puranic story diverges from the HV, the later it is in date. My comparison of the stories indicates that the HV was the source of the Vi.pu, which served as the source for the Br.pu and Bh.pu. A comparison of the latter two texts reveals that the Bh.pu is the latest of the texts while the Br.pu shows a combination of early and late stories. This pattern is consistent with what scholars working on the puranas have described.