Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.286

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c8.286

We have already expressed our views regarding the pastoral associations of Kṛṣṇa. There is no inherent improbability in Kṛṣṇa's being a shepherd as well as a warrior-teacher. Moses and Mahomed furnish good parallels. It is, however, possible that the tales about the pastoral Kṛṣṇa really arose from the Vedic legend of Viṣṇu Gopā, just as the story of the Vāmana incarnation arose out of the legend of Viṣṇu Urukrama.

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