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tures the Puranas. In reply to an inquiry from the king Jesus replied that he was the Messiah that arose in a foreign land. . When Jesus was questioned by the king according to the. Puranas his replies left no doubt that he was referring to the events after his advent and crucifixion. . A question may arise in many minds who was this king and when did he meet Jesus. The title of the king mentioned in the. Puranas is Salivahana and according to the Encyclopaedia Americana 1976 Edition under the heading "India-Post Asoka India" the traditional Salivahana came to power in the early 2nd century and his name was Gautami Putra Satakarni. Thus the position was that when the said meeting between Jesus and Salivahana took place in the Himalayas, Jesus would be approximately over 100 years old. This is further corroborated by the revelation to the Holy Prophet of Islam that his life would be half that of the age attained by Jesus. . CONCLUSION. Putting together the evidence from different sources, we can more or less reconstruct the life of Jesus after the crucifixion. . Jesus Christ received a new lease of life after deliverance from the cross. But in Canaan he had to move about incognito. . He continued to meet his followers however. We have descriptions of these meetings in Corinthians First Epistle of Paul, Chapter XV, and in the Nag-Hammadi Gospels. . The Roman and Parthian empires were separated by the river Euphrates. On the other side of Euphrates in Parthia were settled Israelite tribes, for instance in Adiabne, Nasibis and the Edessa. When Jesus could no longer move about incognito in Canaan, he crossed the river Euphrates and reached Edessa and Nasibis. It was easy from here to travel over Iraq and visit the cities and townships of this part of the Middle East and meet. Israelite pockets where they could be found. Naturally he must have delivered his message and his teachings to them. We have a tradition attributed to the Holy Prophet of Islam (on whom be peace and blessings of God) according to which the Holy Prophet in a vision saw that Jesus Christ had been to the land of Hijaz, that he entered the valley of Mecca for pilgrimage to the Kaaba, and that he used his own words of Response (Talbih) for the occasion. (Akhbar-i-Mecca, 223 A. H. p. 39: by Al-Azraqi) Jesus had been telling some of his followers that he was due to come 146