Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.84

c8.84

The date of the *Bhagavadgītā*, of the *Viśvopākhyāna* or of the *Nārāyaṇīya* is uncertain, but we have epigraphic evidence of the existence of the *Bhāgavata* or *Bhakti* school long before the beginning of the Christian era.³