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that Jesus, on escaping alive from the cross, came to India and 

 died a natural death in Kashmir, are as follows: (1) The 

 .account in Nicolas Notovitch's Unknown Life of Christ, to the 

 ■effect that Jesus visited India. It is needless to say that the 

 Unknown Life of Christ is accepted as authentic by no 

 •competent scholar. But even granting for the sake of argument 

 its authenticity, it contradicts the conclusion of the Mirza 

 Qadiani in two important particulars : (a) It makes Christ visit 

 India, not after His crucifixion, but in the interval of sixteen 

 ■or seventeen years between His visit to Jerusalem at the age 

 of twelve and His public appearance at the age of thirty ; 

 and (b) it asserts in unequivocal language the actual death of 

 ■Jesus Christ on the cross (pp. 133, 195). The view, however, 

 of the Qadiani savant is that the true meaning of the Ascension 

 of Jesus was His separation from His disciples in order to visit 

 Afghanistan and Kashmir. But why should Jesus visit these 

 regions rather than any other part of the world ? The answer 

 is furnished by the Mirza's theory that the people of Afghani- 

 stan and Kashmir are descendants of the " Ten Lost Tribes." 

 'See article on " The Origin of the Afghans and the Kashmiris " 

 {Review of Religions, June, 1904, pp. 234-240). The Mirza is 

 apparently not at all disturbed by the fact that in the Ethno- 

 graphic Appendices to vol. i of the last Census of India (1901), 

 the people of Kashmir are brought under the Indo- Aryan type, 

 and that H. H. Bisley, Esq., I.C.S., the author of these appen- 

 dices, does not deign to notice the theory of the Israelitish 

 origin of the people of Kashmir. (2) As furnishing a kind of 

 a priori proof that Jesus would naturally go in search of the 

 Ten Lost Tribes, the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad cites the following 

 words of Jesus : " The Son of Man came to seek and to save 

 that which was lost " (Luke xix, 10) ; " I was not sent but 

 unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel " (Matt, xv, 

 24); " And other sheep I have which are not of this fold 

 . . . they shall hear My voice" (John x, 16). Vide the 

 article " Jesus among the Ten Lost Tribes in the East," 

 Review of Religions, January, 1903, p. 8. Thus it is proved to 

 the satisfaction of the Qadiani seer that it was necessary in 

 the nature of things that Jesus should visit India ; (3) A 

 further confirmation is given by the verse Quran (xxiii, 52) : 

 "And we appointed the Son of Mary, and his mother, for a 

 sign : and we prepared an abode for them in an elevated part 

 of the earth, being a place of quiet and security, and watered 

 with running springs " (Sale's trans.). On this it is remarked, 

 " This description does not apply to any land so well as it 



