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170 JESUS IN INDIA EXTRACT 21 History of the Afghans translated from the Persian of Neamet Ullah, by Bernhard Dorn, Ph. D. FOR. M. R. A. S. M. T. C. , Part 1 & 2 (J. Murray, London, 1829) Part 1- page 23. Davud treated the two afflicted widows with the utmost kindness; and Heaven blessed them each with an accomplished son, born at the same hour; of whom the one was called Berkhia; the other, Ermia. . . . Each of them was blessed with an accomplished son. Berkhia called his Asif: Ermia's son was called Afghana. Page 24. God blessed Asif with eighteen, and Afghana with forty sons; whose posterity, but more particularly that of the latter, continued increasing in such a degree, that no tribe of the Israelites equalled them. Page 25. God permitted Bokhtnasser to subjugate the territories of Sham, to rase Jerusalem, and vanquish the Israelites, so as to carry their families into captivity and slavery, and drive all those who had faith in the Tora into exile;. . . . . . He reduced the whole of Sham to his subjection; carrying away the Israelites, whom he settled in the moun- tainous districts of Ghor, Ghazneen, Kabul, Candahar, Koh Firozeh,. . . Page 37. Mestoufi, the author of the Tareekh Kozeida, and the author of the Mujmul Ansab, furnish the following