Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya

Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya (Sanskrit: ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय, lit.

[3][4] Bhagavatism, one of the traditions that was assimilated with what would become Vaishnavism, revered the Vrishni heroes, primary among them being Vāsudeva (Krishna).

In the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna called Krishna by the name Vaasudeva multiple times.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevaya means "prostration to Vasudeva", who is variously understood as Krishna.

[12] In the epic Mahabharata, Dhruva chanted this mantra in his penance as ordered by sage Narada.