Which religion features a god who is discussed in the Gaudiya Vaishnava?
Krishna Krishna ( ; ] ; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, IAST: Kṛṣṇa) is a major deity of Hinduism. He is worshiped as the eighth avatar of the god Vishnu and also as the supreme God in his own right. He is the god of compassion, tenderness, and love in Hinduism, and is one of the most popular and widely revered among Indian divinities. Krishna's birthday is celebrated every year by Hindus on Janmashtami according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar, which falls in late August or early September of the Gregorian calendar.
List of Hindu texts Hinduism is an ancient religion with diverse traditions such as Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and others. Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy. Of these some called "Sruti" are broadly considered as core scriptures of Hinduism, but beyond the "Sruti", the list of scriptures vary by the scholar.