Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.140

c8.140

In the *Bhagavadgītā* “which contains probably the oldest dogmatic exposition we possess of Viṣṇuism”² and which is recognised as an *Upanishad* by the Hindus, Vāsudeva is said to have been a scion of the Vṛṣṇi family:—