Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.258

c8.258

The treatment accorded by Kṛṣṇa to his maternal uncle earned for him the epithet *asādhu* in a fragment of a verse quoted by Patañjali (*asādhurmātule Kṛṣṇa*) which must have been composed by some unknown *Kaṁsa-bhakta*. The hand of the *Kaṁsa-bhakta*, and people of that type, no less than that of the *Vāsudeva-bhakta*, is clearly visible in the composition of several passages of the Great Epic. In view of what has been noted above it is hardly permissible to surmise that we have in the *Mahābhāshya* an allusion to the slaying of the black man by the red man or to the slaying of winter by the spirit of spring and summer.