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સૂરિશ્વર અને સયા,
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have about 100,000 men under obedience to him, and every year one of them is elected. I saw among them boys of eight or nine years of ago, who looked like Angels. They seem to be men, not of India, but of Europe. At that age they are dedicated by their fathers to this Religion
They hold that the world was created millions of millenniums ago, and that during that space of time God has sent twenty three Apostles, and that now in this last age, he sent another one, making twenty-four in all, which must have happened about two thousand years ago, and from that time to this, they possess scriptures, which the others | Apostles 1 did not compose.
Father Xavier and I discoursed about that saying, to them that this one (questo ) [ Seil apparently the last Apostle ] concerned their Salvation.
The Babansa aforesaid being interpreter, they said us, we shall talk about that another time, But we never returned there, although they pressed us earnestly, because we departed the next day.? "
પાદરીઓને અનુકૂળ ખંભાત શહેરના અમુક ધનાડ્યું ઉમરાવ બાબાસા (બાબનશાહ) ની સાથે થયેલી વાતચીતને પાદરી નીચે પ્રમાણે ઉલ્લેખ કરે છે.
૧ રિશીના પૂ. પર માંથી કરેલો તરજુમે. આ હકીક્ત મંકલેગને પણ પોતાના લેખના પૃ. ૬૫ માં લખી છે.
૨ બાબનસા, એ પારસી ગૃહસ્થનું નામ છે. તેનું શુદ્ધ નામ અહમનશા હોય, એમ જણાય છે. તે સમયમાં ખંભાતમાં પારસી ગૃહસ્થ રહેતા હતા.
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