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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) 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 to us, ' we shall talk about that another time'. But we never returned there, although they pressed us earnestly, because we departed the next day.
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1. Vide Maclagan's article in the first issue of the "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ", Volume 45, page 65.
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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