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title: Bhagavata Purana
author: The Trustees of the British Museum
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# Bhagavata Purana
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## Image File
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## Image Caption
Page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana. Three cowherds bring their cows to the river Yamuna to drink, then they ask Kṛṣṇa how to find food. Above, Kṛṣṇa tells a group of cowherds, all standing in a line to go and ask the brahmin ladies who were then offering Vedic sacrifices. c. 1500 CE, [India](https://www.worldhistory.org/india/)
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Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2017, November 20). Bhagavata Purana. *World History Encyclopedia*.
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