The Brahmavaivarta Purana focuses on Vishnu and in particular Krishna like the Bhagavata Purana, but its stories and legends have been far less popular than the Bhagavata text. Its style has been called insipid, puerile, and its content and layout of a form so different from the other Puranas that Wilson wrote, the Brahmavaivarta Purana has not the slightest title to be regarded as a Purana.