Unknown Life of Jesus Christ New Edition 2009 Publication

Author(s): Nicholas Notovitch, Virchand R Gandhi, Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: World Jain Confederation

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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Christian reader are but myths, while the Bible is to him a veritable record of truth. Looking from this stand point, it is proved conclusively that the most valuable and complete notices of the ancient trade of India are in the Bible.
The manuscript discovered by Nicholas Notovitch gives a clear account of Jesus from 12 to 26. It says that he went to India with a caravan of merchants. The fact conveys that the earliest trade between the East and the West was carried on by caravans, and long after the sea-routes by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf began to be used, the land trade continued to be more important than the sea-borne. The earliest of these caravan routes were those between Egypt, Arabia and Assyria, and these are referred to in the Bible.
In India, Pattala – the modern Thattha on the river Indus in Sindh, was in early times a place of great importance - is the point where all the caravan routes in India, and leading into India, converged. It was near to the spot that Alexander crossed the Indus, and here also the different lines from China, through the Kashmir valley, and from Sarmatia (Now Russia), Media and Mesopotamia, through the Bamian and Khaiber passes, first entered India. Sindh was therefore the place where a caravan of foreign merchants halted in India. This confirms the statement in the Buddhist manuscript of the life of Jesus that He first went to Sindh. Besides the caravan route, there were two other routesthe Persian Gulf route and the Red Sea route. The Bible is full of reference to the trade by these routes also.
The greatest skeptic must admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a worldwide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also. Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, died in 543 B.C. and Mahavira, the last Arihant of the Jains, in 526, that is, 17 years later. Jainism has been known to have existed even before the time of Buddha and therefore is the oldest missionary religion in the history of the
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