१७८ भारतीय साम्राज्य. [ भाग चांगले अनुकरण किरिस्ताव धर्मीत केले असल्याचे 2. Mr. Chundi Churn Sen writes in the Mirror of Calcutta: A critical study of the life of John the Baptist will clearly show that he was a Buddha Bhikshu or a Buddha Rishi. And as Jesus of Nazareth received his religious instructions from John the Baptist, there can be no doubt that the re- ligion, preached by Jesus, was in its essence the very same that had been preached by Gautama Buddha nearly 1,000 years before his birth. Any of the four gospels of the New Testament will clearly show that a kin to the teachings of Gautam Buddha the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth are replete with the strongest condemnation of the outward and ceremonial practices of religion by the Jews of his time. It is quite apparent that Christianity in its unsectarian form was evolved from, and the sequence of, Buddhism. "Professor Max Muller endeavoured to show that Buddha himself is the original of Saint Josa- phat " "while the Name of Josaphat is itself identified by philologers with that of Boddhisatwa, the complete appellation of Buddha, " "The earlier form of Josaphat was Josaph in Greek and Youasaf or Youdasf in Arabic, an evident derivation from the Sanskrit Boddhisatwa, through the Persian form Boudasp (Weber.) The Name of . the Magician Theudos is in like manner an accurate philolagical reproduction of Devadatta or Thevdat, " (Dr. Hunter's Indian Empire. ) P. 151, S. End,
