The worship of Râdhâ is a late phase of Vishnuism and is not known even to the Bhâgavata Purâṇa.
The reading atat tvam asi is said not to have originated with Madhva but to be found in a Bhâgavata work called the Sâmasamhitâ.
Bhâgavata appears to be the most general name of the sect or sects and means simply of the Lord (Bhâgavat), that is worshippers of the one Lord.
I shall recur to the question of these tribes and the Bhâgavata sect below, but in this section I am concerned with the personality of Kṛishṇa.
This is obvious allegory indicating that the Bhâgavata religion rejected animal sacrifices.
Thus it is not incorrect to say that the Bhâgavata religion is monotheistic and recognizes a creator of souls.
The names of Vâsudeva and Sankarshaṇa occur in old inscriptions[482] 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.
Bhâgavata is sometimes used in the south as a name for Smârtas who practise Vedic rites and worship both Śiva and Vishnu.
For this reason the Bhâgavata hypothesis is unacceptable.
For this reason also the Bhâgavata doctrine cannot be accepted.
The Bhâgavata hypothesis is to be rejected for that reason also, that observation never shows us an instrument, such as a hatchet and the like, to spring from an agent such as Devadatta, or any other workman.
Moreover, manifold contradictions are met with in the Bhâgavata system, with reference to the assumption of qualities and their bearers.
Nor do we mean to object to the inculcation of unceasing concentration of mind on the highest Being which appears in the Bhâgavata doctrine under the forms of reverential approach, &c.
He answers by referring to the well-known legend given in the Bhâgavata Purâ.
In the Bhāgavata the later worship of Kṛishṇa found its classic expression.
As the Bhâgavata doctrine thus teaches things opposed to Scripture, its authoritativeness cannot be admitted.
The conclusion, therefore, is that the Bhâgavata system also denies the origination of the soul, and that hence the objections raised on this ground against its authoritativeness are without any force.
Why, therefore, should not the same hold good in the case of the Bhâgavata doctrine?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gavata" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
