The Nazarene Kashmiri Christ — Page 36
36 those sheep into the Master's fold. . Recent research about Jesus's travels in the. East lends powerful support to the Notovitch's book. . In "Heart of Asia" Professor Nicholus Roerich writes,. that in Srinagar we first encountered the curious legend of Christ's visit to the place. Afterwards we. Isaw how widely spread in India, in Laddakh and in. Central Asia, was the legend of the visit of Christ to those parts. . Jawahar Lal Nehru records in "Glimpses of. World History", that all over Central Asia, in Kashmir and Laddakh and Tibet and even further north, there still exists a strong belief that Jesus or Isa traveled about there. . In Sutta Bhavishya Maha Purana page 282, translated by Dr. Shiv Nath Shastri and quoted by. Robert Graves and Joshua Podro in "Jesus in Rome". . It is quoted that one day Raja Shalewahin went to a country in the Himalayas. There he saw a Raja of. Sakas (foreigners) at Wein, who was fair of colour and wore white clothes. The Raja asked him who he was. He replied he was Yusashaphat or Yuz Asaf and was born of a woman, (according to another report, "born of a virgin"). The Raja asked him about his religion. He replied, "it is love, truth and purity of heart and on account of this I am called 'Isa Masih'. . Michael Burg in his book "Among the. Derveshes says that there lives a tribe around Herat in Afghanistan which styles itself as Christian Muslim. . When the author asked the tribal chief Aba Yahya about this strange juxtaposition of a Christian and. Muslim in the same breath, the chief replied that the prevailing version of the Bible is corrupted and incorrect. According to him Jesus did not die on the cross but was taken down from it alive. Neither did. Jesus ascend physically to the sky. While he was migrating, on his way to Kashmir he preached to the tribe and the tribe believed in him. The chief said that the tribe still has the original Bible with them.