Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.91
Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.91
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c8.91
These epigraphic records show clearly that the Bhāgavatas were the *Bhaktas* of Vāsudeva. This fact enables us to trace back the existence of the sect to the age of Pāṇini for we must recognise in the *Vāsudevakas* of that grammarian the forerunners of the *Bhāgavatas* of the second century B.C.