المسيح الناصري في الهند

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8 'The general expectation of the birth of a great prophet, Redeemer, or Saviour, which is alluded to even by Tacitus, as prevailing at the period when the founder of the Christian religion appeared, was, there can be no doubt, of Boodhistic origin, and not at all confined to Jews, or based only on the prophecies of their Scripture. ' As a foot-note on page 171 the author further wrote: 'The advent of another Boodh a thousand years after Gotama, or Sakhya Muni, is distinctly prophesied in the Pitakattayan and Attha-katha. Gotama declares himself to be the twenty-fifth Boodh, and says, “Bagawa Metteyo is yet to come. " The name Metteyo bears an extraordinary resemblance to Messiah. '