Jesus In India — Page 135
CHAPTER FOUR 125 Like them, the younger brother marries the widow of the elder brother. A French traveller, Ferrier by name, who passed through Herat, states that Israelites are found in large numbers in that territory, and that they have full liberty in the practice of their religion. ¹ The Rabbi Bin Yamin of Toledo, Spain ventured out in search of the lost tribes in the twelfth century A. D. He states that these Jews are settled in China, Iran and Tibet. Josephus, who wrote the ancient history of the Jews in 93 A. D. , in the course of his account of the Jews who escaped from bondage along with the Prophet Ezra, states in his eleventh book that the ten tribes were settled beyond the Euphrates even at that time, and that their numbers were uncountable. ² (By 'beyond the Euphrates' he meant Persia and the eastern territories. ) St. Jerome who lived in the fifth century A. D. , writing about Prophet Hosea says in the margin, in support of his thesis, that since that day the ten tribes (of the Israelites) have been under king Parthya or Paras, and have not been released from bondage. In the first volume of the same book, it is stated that Count Björn Stjerna testifies on page 233-34 of his book that the Afghans admit that Nebuchadnezzar, after the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem, exiled them to the ter- ritory of Bamiyan (which is adjacent to Ghor, in Afghanistan). On page 166 of the book, A Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul and Afghanistan by G. T. Vigne, F. G. S. (1840), it is stated that one Mullah Khuda Dad quoted in his presence from a book called Majma'ul-'Ansāb, that the eldest son of Jacob was Judas, whose son was Usrak; Usrak's son was Aknur; Aknur's son was 1. See Appendix, extract 13,14,15. [Publisher] 2. See Appendix, extract 16. [Publisher]