Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.92

c8.92

In the *sūtra*, iv, 3, 95, Pāṇini says that an affix comes after a word in the first case in construction in the sense of “this is his object of *Bhakti*.” Then in a succeeding *sūtra*, iv, 3, 98, he says that the affix ‘*Vun*’ comes in the sense of “this is his object of *Bhakti*” after the words Vāsudeva and Arjuna. Thus Vāsudevaka = a person the object of whose *Bhakti* is Vāsudeva. To this word we may compare the word Gotamaka = a follower of Gotama.¹