Architectonics of the Bhagavata-Purana

the article deals with the problem of the content structure of the BhagavataPurana, the most representative sacred text from the list of the main eighteen Puranas (the so-called “historical chronicles”) of classical Hinduism. Revealed ten-term composition of the Bhagavata, which are the characteristics of the so-called the mahapurana (“great purana”). Then, the variability of ideas about the location of these ten topics within the Bhagavata itself is considered on the example of the teachings of teachers in the Gaudiya tradition (Bengal Vaishnavism). The opposite positions of such representatives of the tradition as Jiva Goswami (XVI century) and Vishvanatha Chakravarti (XVII–XVIII century) find their synthetic expression in Prabhupada’s teaching (XX century), the latest representative of the school.