Jesus In India — Page 116
116 J e s u s i n I n d i a of Herat, was written in 1018 Hijra during the reign of the Emperor Jahangir, and was translated and published by Prof. Bernhard Doran of Kharkov University in 1836 in London. It contains the following statements in the chapters mentioned below: In chapter 1 there is the history of Jacob Israel with whom starts the genealogy of the Afghans. In chapter II there is the history of King Talut, the genealogy of the Afghans is traced to Talut. On pages 22 and 23 it is stated: Talut had two sons, Berkhia and Ermiah. Berkhia had a son, Asif and Ermiah’s Afghan and on page 24 it is stated that Afghan had twenty-four 67 sons and no one among the Israelites could compare in numbers with the descendants of Afghan. On page 65 68 it is stated that Bokhtnasser 69 occupied the whole of Sham (Syria), etc. , exiled the Israelite tribes and forced them to settle in the mountainous regions of Ghor, Ghazneen, Kabul, Candahar and Koh Firoz, where the descendants of Asif and Afghan particularly took up their abode. The third chapter contains the statement that when Bokhtnasser expelled the Israelites from Syria, some tribes who were the descendants of Asif and Afghan took refuge in Arabia. The Arabs used to address them as Beni Israel and Beni Afghan. 70 On pages 37 and 38 of the same book, on the authority of 67 It should be read as ‘forty’, as is stated in extract 21 of the Appendix. (Translator) 68 This is a misprint, to be read as page 25. See Appendix, extract 21. (Translator) 69 Nebuchadnezzar (Translator) 70 Meaning the children of Israel and the children of Afghan. (Translator)