Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c30.47

c30.47

**Professor F. Otto Schrader, Kiel, Germany.**—I perfectly agree with your opinion that Chāndogya passage on Kṛṣṇa Devakīputra and his teaching is to be considered as the first historical record of Bhāgavatism. There were, of course, many Kṛṣṇas, but to conjecture that more than one was (*sic*) also a Devakīputra, is to my mind an unscientific boldness which is the less justifiable as the teachings mentioned in that passage, as you show, perfectly agree with those, *e.g.*, of the Bhagavad-gītā and the Ṛk. quoted with the famous **तद्विष्णोः परमं पदं**.........