Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.183

c8.183

We learn from Patañjali that the event of the death of Kaṁsa at the hands of Kṛiṣhṇa was in his age believed to have occurred in the remote past. He says “*chirahate Kaṃse*” which means that Kaṃsa’s death occurred at a very remote time. That Kṛṣṇa was the name of the slayer is evident from the following statements found in the *Mahābhāshya*:—