Unknown Life of Jesus Christ Old Edition 1894 Publication

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

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THE UNKNOWN LIFE OP JESUS CHRIST. 11 owing to the influence of local laws and also to the laws of nature, which do not contribute here so powerfully to the physical development of the young as in warmer countries.
His royal origin, his rare intelligence, and the hard study to which he had applied himself, caused even the most noble and wealthy people to regard him as an exccllcnt inatch, and many strove to sccurc him for a sonin-law. Thus the Israclites of to-day hold it as an honor to marry their daughters to the son of a Rabbi or of a scholar. But the pensive youth, scemingly separated from all corporal things, and with a great thirst for knowledge, left sccretly the house of his parents and joined the caravans that were just leaving the country.
We may believe that Jesus Christ prcfcrred to go to India, because at this time Egypt itself was a part of the Roman possessions, and also because a very brisk commercial exchange with India had circulated throughout Judea stories concerning the majestic character and thc unhcard-of richness of thic arts and sciences in this marvellous country, whither even now all the aspirations of the civilized world turn.
Here the Evangelists lose the thircad of the terrestrial life of Jesus. Lukc says: "He remained in the dcsert until the time of showing unto Israel," which is a conclusive prool that no one know whicre the young man had disappcarcal to, or whence he returned suddenly after sixteen years'absence.
On his arrival in India, the country or marvels, Jesus began to frequent the temples of the Jains. There has existed, and still exists, in the peninsula of Hindustan, a sect which berus the name of Jains; it loris, as it were, a bond of union between Buddhism and Brahmanism, and proaches the destruction of all other beliefs, which it declares are in crror. It arose in the