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on this D. D. Kosambi observes: The nucleus of the story is the legend that the infidel priest' called himself 'Isa-Masihas' - clearly 'Jesus the Messiah'- on which an attempt at a Sanskrit etymology has been embroidered but the Godess Masi 10 is a fiction, unknown elsewhere. The word naigama cannot be taken as referring to Hindu Scriptures and perhaps means the Bible. King Salivahana is traditionally credited with having inaugurated the present Hindu era, which begins in A. D. 78; but here he is said to have defeated the Romans and the Chinese successes which might be claimed for a Kushan ruler, but not for any king of India proper. If St. Thomas, whose tomb is shown at Mylapore (Madras), also in Malabar and (perhaps) in Ceylon, made peregrinations to these regions, his teacher may well have travelled too; but to accept A. D. 78 as Salivahna's date would make Jesus over 80 years old at the supposed meeting. (Jesus in Rome, by Robert Graves and Joshoa Podro - London 1957: pp. 76-77). - (xi) When India was under Buddhist supremacy every saint who came after Buddha was included in the Buddhist Pantheon. Jesus came to India in search of the lost sheep of Israel performing the function of the scriptural shepherd. " Therefore, he came to be called Asaf or Gatherer. The Buddhists confused this with Buddhisattva and changed Joshua Asaf to Budasaf. The common people began to call him Yuz Asaf, The Book of Yuz Asaf was compiled in the medieval period. This compilation was a pure Buddhist legend. At the end of the Book, however, we have Means the angel Gabriel 10 11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:23-37; John: 10:11-16. 187