Christ vs Krishna
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CHRIST <strong>vs</strong> KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES<br />
M. M. NINAN<br />
Further on we read the description of <strong>Christ</strong>'s coming at the last day in the clouds with<br />
power and great glory, seated on a white horse, as the " King of Kings and Lord of<br />
Lords," followed by the armies of heaven on white horses to smite the nations with the<br />
sword of his mouth, and to tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty<br />
God (Rev. xix, 11 to 10). This is transmuted by Hindooism into the descent on earth of<br />
a pale horse, riderless, surmounted by the State Umbrella or a (Chattree the insignia<br />
of royalty, which is to trample down the wicked and destroy them indiscriminately! This<br />
the Hindoos call "Niskulauk" avatar, or the sinless incarnation of the last ages.<br />
Do not all these references tend to show that these characters of the personages, not<br />
to mention the passion-plays of the Hindoos, bear some resemblance to the<br />
characters in the Bible history? No one can be blind to such strong proofs of the<br />
Brahmins having interpolated the Scriptures, as can be found on careful enquiry. That<br />
it is so will be apparent from another point, viz. the way in which the Hindoo records<br />
describe the death of the Gardener, and the promise of the incarnation, A description<br />
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