Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c9.2

c9.2

If Krishna is a human teacher, the question naturally arises when he lived. If the traditional connection of Krishna with the battle of Kurukshetra has any foundation in fact, then it must be admitted that he lived before the compilation of the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā of the Yajurveda, for, one of his traditional contemporaries, Dhṛtarāṣṭra Vaichitravīrya, a prominent figure in the Kurukshetra story, is mentioned in the Kāṭhaka.¹