Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c30.52

c30.52

**Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain.**—The scope of this small book is rightly expressed in its title. The author who is Lecturer in History in the Calcutta University, has collected and discussed statements, references, and allusions from the early literature to throw light on the position and life of Kṛṣṇa and the growth of Bhāgavatism. He deals with the various theories that have been put forward, and with good reasons discredits the views that Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva was a solar deity or a tribal god or a vegetation deity. He is right in treating Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva as one person, the Vṛṣṇi chief, but he unnecessarily identifies him with Kṛṣṇa Devakīputa, the scholar mentioned in the Chāndogya Upanishad . . . . . (F. E. Pargiter).