Vāsudeva

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Vāsudeva (; Sanskrit: वासुदेव [ʋɑːsudéːʋɐ]), also known as Vāsudeva-Krishna (Vāsudeva-Kṛṣṇa) 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 religious following 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. After the movement of Vāsudeva...

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