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BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN “Ant. 14.255 make the statement that (Yalqut Reubeni, Gen. 26.2-36c) that Keturah was the daughter of Japheth, the traditional ancestor of the Greeks (perhaps identified with Iapetos, the father of Prometheus?) See Freudenthal 1874-75, 1:130-36, 215 We may conjecture that this notion connecting Abraham with the Greeks may just possibly have contributed to the bracketing the Jews and the Brahmans (Abraham would equal Brahman with a prothetic vowel) found in Megasthenes, Indica (ap. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.5-72.5; cf Aristotle, ap Clearchus of Soli, De Sono, ap. Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.179, who declares that the jews are descended from the Indian Philosophers) Abraham’s sons by Keturah are stated in Genesis 25 to have named Suah and Iesan (Jokshan in English Bible) .... And we have the whole of the Hindu Trinity, namely Brahma (Abraham) Siva (Sua or Sue) and Vishnu (Iezan)” Vishnu: Incarnations of a Savior By Sri G. Ananda 2014 “Postellus takes these Brahmans to have been descended from Abraham by his wife Ketrurah, and believes that the true religion prevailed long among them; and, indeed, from the account given us of them -by the ancients, it seerns to appear, that they acknowleged one Supreme Being, and a future state of rewards and punishrnents. Nay, it farther appears from those 39
BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN accounts, that some of them worshiped this Supreme Being with great fervency and devotion, prayed constantly to'hirn, and despised every thing in this world for his fake, Be that as it will, they were celebrated all over the ancient world for their wisdom and austerity of life, and proposed as a pattern for imitation to nations of greater politeness than the Indians. Pythagorus studied their doctrines and manners, and received his notion of the transmigration of souls, or metempsychoss, from them. If what is here advanced be "admitted, it will be an additional argument in favour of the migration of some of Shem's descendents into India and likewise prove, that the Abrahamic religion prevailed, at least for many ages, in that remote country. A famous Brahman, named Bebergir, communicated to the Mohamedans,, whole religion he embraced, the .Amberthkend, which contains the doctrines of the Indians.' The modern Brahmans say, that Brahma left to the Indians the four books which they call Beth, or Bed, in which all the scienees, and all the ceremonies of religion, are comprised ; and for this reason they represent that fupposed deity with four heads” An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time, Volume 20 By George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton 1748 “Postellus, however, had long before asserted the same thing, with this additional circumitanee, that the tribe of Brahmans were the descendants of that patriarch by his wife Keturah, and were so called, quasi Abramanes. He might, by parity of reasoning, have derived the name of the second great Indian, or Kattri, tribe from Keturah, from which it is not very disiimilar; but, in this case, unfortunately the same argument would hold good as that before urged against the probability that Zoroaster was of ]udaic extraction : the total silenee of the Vedas in regard to circurncision.” Indian Antiquities: or, dissertations, relative to the ancient ..., Volume 2 By Thomas Maurice 1801 40
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