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KRSNA AND KING OF ARYANS. The advent of a Messianic prophet in the latter age of strife and irreligiousness has been recorded by nearly all religions of the world. The Judaeo Christian scriptures contain several prophecies in relation to the coming of the Messiah as in the. Book of Daniel 101 and the Gospel according to St. Matthew. 1. Buddhist literature alludes to the advent of the Maitreya or. Shakyamuni Buddha 103 while Vedic scriptures contains a prophecy in relation to the advent of an avatara in the age of. Kaliyuga: 'Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice. O descendants of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion, at that time I descend myself. To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to re-establish the principles of religion, I myself appear, millennium after millennium. '104 108. Islam also records a prophecy in relation to the Messiah in its books of Hadeeth 105 in which it is clearly indicated that he would be the judge who would abolish Jizya 106 and an impartial leader who would judge with justice. 107 It is also stated in. Hadeeth literature that he would be a leader amongst men' who would lead them according to the Book of Allah and His. Apostle's Sunnah 109 and the one who would rid the world of spite, hatred and jealousy. 110 In view of this prophecy contained in Hadeeth literature, Muslim scholars have generally expressed the view that this is an indication of the fact that the Shari'ah of all earlier prophets before the advent of Islam would stand sa 101. Daniel 12. 1/9 103. Laggawati Sutatta. vide. Buddha, Dr. Herman Oldenberg, p. 142 104. Bhagavad Gita, 4. 7/8 102. Matthew 24. 3/31 105. Sahih Bukhari, vol. 4, bk. 55, ch. 44; Sahih Muslim, vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 72 106. Sahih Muslim 72. 287 107. Ibid. , 72. 288 108. Ibid. , 72. 290 109. Ibid. , 72. 292 89. 110. Ibid. , 72. 289