Bhagavata | Hindu sect

  • THE DESCRIPTION OF BHAGWAT RELIGION WAS FOUND IN ‘ADI’ PARV AND ‘SHANTI’ PARV OF MAHABHARATA.
  • BHAGWAT RELIGION GAVE IMPORTANCE TO GOD AS WELL AS GURU.
  • THIS RELIGION PROMOTES ABOLISHING THE CASTE SYSTEM.
  • BHAGWAT RELIGION MENTIONED 5 TYPES OF MUKTIS.
  • BHAGWAT RELIGION MENTIONED 5 TYPES OF GOD.
  • NARAYANA WAS MENTIONED IN SATPATH BRAHMAN.
  • THE FIRST-EVER DESCRIPTION OF KRISHNA WAS MENTIONED IN ‘CHANDOGYA’ UPANISHADS.
  • ‘MEGASTHENIS’ DESCRIBED ‘KRISHNA’ AS ‘HERAKLIS’.
  • ‘HELIODORAS’ ESTABLISHED ‘GARUDDWAJ’ IN ‘BESNAGAR’ (PRESENT-VIDISHA, MADHYA PRADESH) AND DECLARED HIMSELF AS ‘PARAM BHAGWAT’.
  • ACCORDING TO VAYU PURANA, THERE ARE 5 IMPORTANT CHARACTERS OF THE BHAGWAT RELIGION THEY ARE-   
  1. VASUDEV      
  2. SANKARSAN       
  3. PRADHUMN        
  4. SAMB         
  5. ANIRUDHA