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CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN him over to hurt and brought away far child (A girl * Jsoda's child must of necessity be a girl Otherwise she would have been looked down upon as act unnatural mother yielding up her son to death, albeit to save a prince*) who was given to Deokee and supposed to be her offspring. Jasoda and her husband Nand were of the Aheor (The Aheor (cowherd) caste command respect from Hindoos. They have been connected with many of the events in the 'lives of the Hindoo gods, and are representatives of an early civilization, when the pastoral condition prevailed universally. The cattle they tend serve to supply them with milk and butter, the staple of their food, while the ox ploughs the ground and give an out-turn of rain. The orthodox Hindoos are strictly vegetarians, and worship the cow and the bull. The Hindoos are not the only nation which has a respect, for the bull. In the Grecian mythology we have images of bulls and in a Grecian picture before me; the figure of a female riding on a bull led by a man is to be seen. It seems symbolical of our Adam and Eve in their fallen state, after having been driven out of Eden,) caste and they adopted Krishna as their son. Krishna at the age of 12 returned to his birthplace, as it is said to kill Kons and usurp the throne. Basdeo (evidently the Joseph of Scripture, who had to flee to Egypt with the infant Jesus in order to avoid the persecuting Herod) in his flight from Mathura to Gokool, had to cross the river Jumna, carrying Krishna on his head, and while in the act of fording, went beyond his depth; Krishna's feet, touching the waters caused them to recede, and enabled Basdeo to walk across on dry land. (In this 1 see a reference to the miracle at the Red Sea, and again at Jordan, where the waters started back and the dry land appeared. The Old Testament legend was doubtless imported by ancient Hindoos into the story of Krishna to add to his importance.) It is also stated that the flight was so precipitate that Basdoo whipped off the babe as soon as it was born, without, detaching the secundines, or 74
CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES M. M. NINAN ligaturing the cord. In the rainy season, in the month of Bhudro (August), he was taken at midnight across a flooded river, to the distance of 3 coss, or 9 miles. Having touched upon the subject of incarnations by alluding to the incarnation of Krishna, the last and the most celebrated of the Hindoo triads, with an unbiased mind and purely from disinterested motives, it behoves me now to show the merits and demerits of each case by putting thorn in juxtaposition; the truth of the incarnation of the Gospel Christ, and the fiction of the Krishna incarnation being apparent. Christ of the Gospels. a. THE incarnation of Christ was for the atonement and justification of fallen men according to a promise made to our first progenitors when they transgressed the Krishna of the Shastras. a. THE incarnation of Krishna was for the justification of man. Ram, one of the ton avatars, having formed an- alliance with Sugrib the Gardener's brother, as 75
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