مسیح کشمیر میں

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73 " (of hers) which I imposed upon the infidels; Having cleansed the kind and purfied the impure body, and had recourse۔۔۔the prayer of the NAIGAMA (Holy Book), man must worship the pure Eternal by justice, truth, unity of mind and meditation, man must worship Isa (God) in the sun's Heaven (SURYAMANDALA, which could also mean "the sun's disk"۔) That Lord, himself as immovable (from his course) as the Sun, always at last۔۔۔the essence of all erring creatures۔With this (message) O King, Masiha Ihamasi? "I " vanished; and the blissful image of Isa, the bliss-giving, being ever in my heart, my name has been established as Isa Masiha" Having heard these words, the King removed that infidel preist and established him in the pitiless land of the Infidels۔The nucleus of the story is the legend that the " infidel Preist " called himself Isa Masih clearly ' Jesu the Messiah' on which an attempt at a Sanscrit etymology has been embroidered but the Goddess Masi is a fiction, unknown elsewhere۔The Lord NAIGAMA can not be taken as referring to Hindu Scriptures and perhaps۔۔۔the Bible'۔King Salivahana is traditionally credited with having inaugurated the present Hindu era, which begins in A۔D۔78, but here he is said to have defeated the Romans and the Chinese successes which might be claimed for a Kushan۔۔۔but not for any King of India proper۔