Footnotes


36. Vasudeva, or All-Gods, is the god of monotheistic Hinduism, the strain of belief that the multitude of Hindu gods are manifestations of one god. The religion which focusses all its worship on this one god is "Bhagavata," and the one god is alternatively named Krishan, Vasudeva, or Vasudeva-Krishna. "Vrishni": one of Krishna's ancestors.