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तुरीश्वर और तबाद
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 age, 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 stage, he went another one, making twenty-four in all, which must have happened about two thousand ycars ago, cod 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 s Seil apparently the last Apostle ] concomed their Salvation
The Babansa aforesaid being interpreter, they said us, we shall talk about that another time. But we never retuned there, slobougle they pressed us earnestly, because we departed the next day.?»
पादारयोंके अनुसय, खंभा के बाबनसो ( ? बाबनशाह ) नामक एक धनाढ्य उमरावक सय पादोकी गातचीत हुई थी। उसका वर्णन उसने इस प्रकार है
१ पेरुशीके पृष्ठ ५२ मेस किया हुवा अनुवाद । यह बात मैकलेगनने भी अपने लेखके ६५ - पृष्ट में लिखा है !
२ बाबनना यह एक पारसी गृहसका नाम ह । ऐसा मालूम होता है कि, उसका शुद्ध नाम बहमनशा होगा । उस समय भी खंभातमें पारसी गृहस्थ रहते थे।
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