heliodoros

Updated: May 24, 2025

The names of Vâsudeva and Sankarshaṇa occur in old inscriptions and the Greek Heliodoros calls himself a Bhâgavata on the column found at Besnagar and supposed to date from the first part of the second century B.C. The Pâncarâtra was not Brahmanic in origin and the form of the Sânkhya philosophy from which it borrowed was also un-Brahmanic.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2