Krishna Vasudeva
Sign in to saveVāsudeva (; ), also known as Vāsudeva-Krishna () or Krishna-Vāsudeva, was a deified Vrishni hero of the Vrishni-clan, and may well have been a historical ruler in the region of Mathura. The movement of Vāsudeva was one of the major independent religious movements alongside those of Narayana, Shri and Lakshmi, which later coalesced to form Vaishnavism.
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- Deity.type
- Hindu
- Deity.name
- Vāsudeva
- Deity.image
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- Deity.caption
- Vāsudeva on a coin of Agathocles of Bactria, circa 190–180 BCE. This is "the earliest unambiguous image" of the deity.
- Deity.birth_place
- Mathura, Surasena (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
- Deity.weapon
- Sudarshana Chakra Kaumodaki
- Deity.parents
- Devaki (mother)Vasudeva Anakadundubhi (father)
- Deity.siblings
- Saṃkarṣaṇa (brother)Subhadra (sister)
- Deity.children
- Pradyumna, Samba
- Deity.consort
- Rukmini
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23 sectionsContents
- Historical development
- Vāsudeva-cult
- Vāsudeva-Krishna
- Amalgation into Vaishnavism
- Iconographic transition
- Devotion
- In art
- Vāsudeva
- identification with Herakles (3rd c. BCE)
- Heliodorus pillar and Temple of Vāsudeva (circa 115 BCE)
- Vāsudeva Temple in Mathura (1st c. CE)
- Fusion into Vaishnavism
- Naneghat inscription (1st century BCE)
- Gosundi inscription
- Chilas petroglyphs
- Vāsudeva in 2nd century CE sculpture - ermegence of the avatar-concept
- Vāsudeva in the Kondamotu relief (4th century CE)
- Vāsudeva at Deogarh (6th century CE)
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
Vāsudeva (; ), also known as Vāsudeva-Krishna () or Krishna-Vāsudeva, was a deified Vrishni hero of the Vrishni-clan, and may well have been a historical ruler in the region of Mathura. The movement of Vāsudeva was one of the major independent religious movements alongside those of Narayana, Shri and Lakshmi, which later coalesced to form Vaishnavism.
His cult developed after the Vedic period, and was the first expression of what was to become Vaishnavism. It was one of the earliest forms of personal deity worship in India, and is attested from around the 4th century BCE, when he was already considered as a deity, as he appears in Pāṇini's writings in conjunction with Arjuna as an object of worship. By the end of the 2nd century BCE, Vāsudeva was considered as Devadeva, the "God of Gods", the Supreme Deity, whose emblem was the mythical bird Garuda, as known from the Heliodorus pillar inscription.