Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 196
? 196 we were soon on the way. We soon reached the Rauza. I was told that all kinds of visitors, from India and abroad, come to see the tomb. ‘Even the Viceroy has been here. ’ I was interested to hear this. ‘Which Viceroy do you mean?’ ‘Don’t know, sir, but I mean the one who did not have an arm. ’ Evidently it must have been Lord Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, who was then Lord Irwin. The visit of Lord Halifax was never reported in the papers. At least I do not remember having read anything about it. Still one can understand why Lord Halifax satisfied his curiosity so quietly. Yet a visit by a Viceroy—and as quite unan- nounced as that—does make it look serious. ‘How old, do you think, would be the tomb?’ ‘Very old, sir. ’ ‘Still, how old?’ The tongawallas, there were three of them, looked at one another, until one of them said ‘Nineteen hundred years,’ adding he was a prophet who came from somewhere outside. The tomb has been revered for hundreds of years, and this is what we have been hearing from our fathers. 1 These references to the tomb under discussion show that the entombed person was: • A prince; • A nabi , i. e. , a prophet of God sent to the inhabitants of Kashmir; 1. The Sunrise, vol. 10. No. 16, April 22, 1939. Lahore, India (now in Pakistan).