Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
affection. This has been purposely omitted, and in fact may be viewed as a
metaphorical connection. Krishna, in order to personate Christ, has no progeny.
The powder germinated and a grass grew out of the water called Kush, from which
rope is manufactured. This grass is tough as iron. The inhabitants are said to have
plucked and used it in belabouring each other in an international quarrel and thus
destroyed themselves; fulfilling the curse.
Acts v. 30 & X. 39 Authorized Version" The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom
ye slew and hanged on a tree.
" And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in
Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree.")
There are so many versions of the tragedy that one feels diffident which one to accept.
One version of it is that Krishna was hiding in the thicket, when the Bayad, mistaking
him for a "mrig" (a stag), shot the arrow and wounded him in the sole of the foot. In this
description one cannot but trace very distinct allusions to the arrest of Jesus in the
garden of Gethsemane, Matthew xxvi. 36.
Another, version is that Krishna transformed himself into a monkey: while on the top of
a tree, and was wounded with an arrow in his side by the Baydd. Christ's uplifting on
the cross, and subsequently being wounded by one of the soldiers, is fully illustrated
by Krishna in the guise of the monkey on a tree.*
The third version is that as Krishna was going up to heaven on the wings of an eagle,
he was attacked and wounded with a spear by the Baydd in the soles of his feet and in
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