Where Did Jesus Die?

by Jalal-ud-Din Shams

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Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 167

Chapter Eleven—Jesus Goes to India 167 [ Footnotes cited in the above quote :] 2. W. R. Philipps, Indian Antiquary, xxx111, pp. 1off. , ‘Trans. of Notes on the Indo-Scythians by Sylvain Levi’; Camb. Hist. India, 1, pp. 563–78; Arch. Survey of India, Annual Report of 1902–3, p. 167. Some scholars, however, do not now regard the date of Gundaphorus as firmly established. 3. The Kharosttic (Sanskrit in a Semitic script) inscriptions on coins and an Aramaic inscription of one of Asoka’s edicts found at Taxila establish this fact; Journal of Asiatic Studies (1915) p. 340–7 Herzfeld, Egripraphia Indica, xix, p. 251–3 see also N. A. Faris, The Arab Heritage. 4. Camb. Hist. India, pp. 580–5. 5. R. A. Trotter. ‘The History of Christianity in Sind’, Conference , February, 1947. Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan by P. Thomas George Allen, Unwin Ltd. , London 1954. It is quite probable that the Apostle travelled by the overland route to the domains of Gundaphoros and preached the Gospel in his kingdom before South India claimed him. It may be men- tioned in this connection that Partha was also associated with the Apostle’s activities. There were in Persia and Afghanistan, at the time under the Parthians, a considerable number of Jews of the Dispersion and the anxiety of the Apostle to communicate to his Bishop of Uganda, formerly Principal Kerela United Theological Seminary Trivandrum. Travencore sometimes Chaplain Fesus and Dowing College Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press… 1956. ’