Jesus In India — Page 140
130 JESUS IN INDIA The book, Makhzan-i-Afghani by Khawaja Nimatullah of Herat, was written in 1018 Hijrah during the reign of the Emperor Jahangir, and was translated and published by Prof. Bernhard Doran of Kharkov University in 1836 in London. It contains the following statements in the chapters mentioned below: In chapter 1 there is the history of Jacob Israel with whom starts the genealogy of this nation (Afghans). In chapter II there is the history of King Talut, that is to say, the genealogy of the Afghans is traced to Talut. On pages 22 and 23 it is stated that Talut had two sons, Berkhia and Ermiah. Berkhia had a son, Asif and Ermiah's Afghan and on page 24 it is stated that Afghan had twenty-four² sons and no one among the Israelites could compare in numbers with the descendants of Afghan. On page 65³ it is stated that Bokhtnasser* occupied the whole of Sham [Syria], etc. , exiled the Israelite tribes and forced them to settle in the mountainous regions of Ghor, Ghazneen, Kabul, Qandahar and Koh Firoz, where the descend- ants of Asif and Afghan particularly took up their abode. The third chapter contains the statement that when Bokhtnasser expelled the Israelites from Syria, some tribes who 1. See page 3 of Preface by the author. This book is a summary of au- thentic chronicles like Tārīkh-e-Tibri, Majma'ul-'Ansāb, Gazīdah Jahāń- Kushāī, Matlaʻul-Anwār and Mʻadan-e-Akbar. (Author) 2. It should be read as 'forty', as is stated in extract 21 of the Appendix. [Publisher] 3. This is a misprint, to be read as page 25. See Appendix, extract 21. [Publisher] 4. Nebuchadnezzar [Publisher]