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He appears as the protecting hero and saint and sage, the overcomer of evil spirits, the popular wonderworker.
From some of the characteristics of Krishna it has been imagined that he has been derived from Christ; but there
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is no proof of this, and, indeed, the multiplication and varying form of the incarnations tells against this idea. In fact, the belief proceeds from a date before the Christian era. The meaning of the word Krishna, “black," also makes against the Christian relationship; it rather points
