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peak of the Himalayas. There in the middle of the Hun country the mighty king saw sitting in the mountain a dignified person of white complexion and wearing white clothes. Shalewahin asked him who he was? He replied with pleasure: 'Know me the son of God and born of a virgin. I am the preacher of Mlachha religion and follower of true principles'. On hearing this the king said: 'what is your religion?' He replied: 'O Maharaj, On the disappearance of truth and destruction of the traditions (maryada) in the Mlachha country I appeared there as Masih. Through my work the guilty and the wicked suffered, and I also suffered at their hands'. When asked to further explain his religion, he said: 'It is love, truth and purity of heart and for this I am called Masih. ' Shalewahin returned after making his obeisance to him. 25 The most striking piece of evidence in support of the life and death of Jesus in Kashmir is his tomb in the Khanyar quarter of Srinagar which is known as the tomb of the prince prophet Yuz (or Yus) Asaph. The present custodian of the tomb holds a grant made to his ancestor Rehman Mir, son of Bahadur Mir, signed and sealed by five Muftis (Jurists) of Srinagar dated 11th Jamadi us-Sani, 1184 A. N. (1766 A. D. ). This grant shows that the holy shrine of Prophet Yuz Asaph was regularly visited by high and low. Nobles and ministers and kings and high dignitaries and the general public, 25 Bhavishya Maha Purana, Bombay, 1959, pp. 465-466, verses 17-32. 145