[Footnote 24: See Rapson, _Ancient India_, p. 156 ff., _Cambridge Hist. India_, i, pp. 521, 558, 625, H. Ray Chaudhuri, _Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect_, p. 59, and Ramaprasad Chanda, _Archæology and Vaishnava Tradition_ in _Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India_, No. 5, p. 151 ff., etc.]
Another inscription, a few years later in date, has been found in Besnagar. It is a mere fragment, but it supplements the other; for it states that a certain _bhagavata_, or "worshipper of the Lord," named Gotama-puta (Gautama-putra in Sanskrit) erected a Garuda-column for the Lord's temple in the twelfth year from the coronation of King Bhagavata. This king is perhaps the same as the person of that name who appears in some genealogical lists as the last but one of the Sunga Kings.[25]
[Footnote 25: See R. Chanda, _ut supra_, p. 152 f.]
Next in date is an inscription on a stone slab found at Ghasundi, about four miles north-east of Nagari, in Udaipur State. It was engraved about 150 B.C., and records that a certain _bhagavata_, or "worshipper of the Lord," named Gajayana, son of Parasari, caused to be erected in the Narayana-vata, or park of Narayana, a stone chapel for the worship of the Lords Samkarshana and Vasudeva.[26] Here their worship is associated with that of Narayana.
[Footnote 26: It is noteworthy that Samkarshana is here mentioned first, as is also the case in the Nanaghat inscription of about 100 B.C., which mentions them as descendants of the Moon in a list of various deities. This order may possibly be due to the fact that in ancient legend Samkarshana, or Bala-bhadra, is the elder brother of Krishna Vasudeva, and it does not entitle us to draw the inference that he ever received equal honour with Vasudeva. Special devotees of Samkarshana are mentioned in the Kautiliya, the famous treatise on polity ascribed to Chanakya, the minister of Chandra-gupta Maurya, who came to the throne about 320 B.C. (Engl. transl. 1st edn., p. 485). I suspect that in its present form the Kautiliya is considerably later than 320 B.C.; but in any case the existence of special votaries of Samkarshana is no proof that he ever ranked as equal to Vasudeva, just as the presence of special worshippers of Arjuna is no proof that Arjuna was ever considered a peer of Vasudeva. On the Ghasundi inscription see R. Chanda, _ut supra_, p. 163 ff., etc.; for the Nanaghat inscription, _ibidem_ and _Memoirs of the Arch. Survey of India_, No. 1, with H. Raychaudhuri's _Materials, etc._, p. 68 ff.]