Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c13.66

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² See the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, trans. Wilson, p. 503 ff. for the birth and childhood of Kṛṣṇa. The raising of the widow’s son only occurs in the late Jaimini Bhārata. The Vallabhas of Gujarat worship the Infant Kṛṣṇa and his Mother. Much has been made of this curious coincidence, e.g. by Kennedy in J.R.A.S. 1907.