Tribes in Ancient India c9.32

c9.32

Another cult which arose in Mathurā was the Bhāgavata religion, the parent of modern Vaiṣṇavism⁴; but in the Śaka-Kushan period, the city had ceased to be a stronghold of Bhagavatism.⁵ The paucity of Bhāgavata inscriptions at Mathurā probably indicates that Bhagavatism did not find much favour at the royal court, because from the first century B.C. to the third century A.D., the people were usually Buddhists.⁶