Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.175

c8.175

According to Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, Vāsudeva and Kṛiṣṇa were originally names of distinct individuals. In the opinion of that great scholar Vāsudeva was a Kṣhatriya belonging to the Yādava, Vṛiṣhṇi or Sātvata race who founded a theistic system. Later on "he was identified with Kṛiṣhṇa whose name had been handed down as that of a holy seer."¹