The Bhagavata Purana (sometimes rendered as Bhagavad Purana, also known as the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or simply Bhāgavatam) is one of the Puranas, a part of the literature of Hinduism. Its focus is on the bhakti movement in which Vishnu or Krishna is understood as Bhagavat (all-embracing God). Earlier parts of the work contain stories of some devotees and objects of their devotion, avataras of God. The last and most important part of the work (i.e., the tenth canto) is an elaboration of the traditional story of Krishna.


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