Update
Show Summary Details

Page of

PRINTED FROM OXFORD REFERENCE (www.oxfordreference.com). (c) Copyright Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice).

date: 09 February 2025

Kṛṣṇa (‘ black’) 

Source:
A Dictionary of Hinduism
Author(s):

W. J. Johnson

One of the major Hindu gods, regarded by his devotees as the supreme deity. As worshipped since the medieval period, Kṛṣṇa has been characterized by some scholars as a ‘composite’ god, insofar as his character and story appear to be derived from the amalgamation of what were, originally, at least two different figures. Apart from some ambiguous appearances in the ... ...

Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter without a subscription.

Please subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code.

For questions on access or troubleshooting, please check our FAQs, and if you can''t find the answer there, please contact us.