Krishna Gopeshvara

Krishna Gopeshvara is the first book in a proposed Krishna Trilogy by Sanjay Dixit. The book was soft launched by Sanjay Dixit with the publishers Bloomsbury Publishing on 18 November 2017 in the second EDition of The Jaipur Dialogues event. The sub-title of the book is "Rationalist of Vrishnis". According to Dixit, the book aims to explore Krishna's life events from a rational perspective.

Krishna Gopeshvara follows the trend of historical fictions made popular by Amish Tripathi with his ShiVa Trilogy and Ramchandra Series.

According to Dixit, the book is an attempt to create a logical explanation around the engaging persona of arguably the most complex of characters in the Hindu pantheon. During the launch of the book, he stated that there is much truth in the saying that 'Listen to Krishna, but follow Rama'. He said in the soft launch that Rama was a linear personality who set examples of his own conduct for others to follow, whereas Krishna was in a higher state of evolution as Yogeshvara whose actions cannot be easily understood or followed by lay people, but his teachings are in an exalted state which can be followed by everyone from Yogi to Gopi.

There is a minor controversy over the way the Swastika is depicted on the cover, being anti-clockwise instead of the usual auspicious clockwise depiction. When asked, Dixit refused to reveal the reason before the book hits the market. Rather enigmatically, he said that one would have to read the book to know the reason. He said that at this point, he would not like to unravel the mystery behind the reverse Swastika. The book is likely to be available in early 2018.

The next two books in the Krishna Trilogy are likely to be Krishna Yogeshvara and Krishna Gyaneshvara.