[5] The Harivamsa describes intricate relationships between Krishna Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha that would later form a Vaishnava concept of primary quadrupled expansion, or Avatar . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Vasudeva The Christian Connection: King Vasudeva Vasudeva may have been the Indian king who returned the relics of the Apostle St. Thomas from Mylapore