Jesus In India — Page 81
CHAPTER TWO 71 Messiah, may peace be on him, is present in Srinagar,¹ Kashmir. And just as Jesus, the Messiah, was crucified at Golgotha, that is to say the site of the Skull, his tomb too has been found at the site of the Skull i. e. Srinagar. That the word sri [skull] should occur in the names of both the places is a strange coincidence indeed. The place where Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, was crucified was called Gilgit (Golgotha) or sri, and the place where in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the tomb of Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, has been discovered is also called Gilgit, or Sri. It appears that the place called Gilgit, which is located in the area of Kashmir, also suggests the term Sri. This town was probably founded in the time of Jesus, the Messiah, and as a local memorial to the crucifixion, it was named Gilgit, or Sri; similarly Lhasa, which means the 'city of the one worshipped'; this is a Hebrew word, and Lhasa too was founded in the time of Jesus, the Messiah. Reliable reports in the ahadith show that our Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said that Jesus, the Messiah, lived to an age of one hundred and twenty-five (125). And all the sects of Islam accept that in Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, two such characteristics came together as are not to be found together in any other prophet: 1. The word 'Srinagar' comprises two Hindi words, sri (skull) and nagar (place), meaning 'Place of a Skull'. The place where Jesus, the Messiah, was put on the cross, was also called 'Place of a Skull. See Matthew 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17. [Publisher]