The Truth of Revelation; Demonstrated by an Appeal to Existing Monuments, Sculptures, Gems, Coins, and Medals (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...by deeds of beneficence and acts of power. Tyrants were subdued, the poor protected; he washed the feet of the Brahmins, while the most pure and perfect doctrines were preached by this great teacher. His enemies at length, however, triumphed, and he was at last transfixed by an arrow to a tree. He foretold before his death the miseries that should come to pass in the Cali Yuga, or iron age. This artful legend is sufficiently startling, and the features of resemblance between its details and the birth, life and death of the Saviour of men, could not escape the lynx eye of infidels. It turns out, however, that it is a 'cunningly devised fable' of the Brahmins, grafted on the gospel narrative; for Mr. Bentley on astronomical calculations, founded on the Janampatra of Krishna, which he was fortunate enough to obtain, and which contains the relative planetary positions at his assumed birth, has reduced this eventful epocha to the 7th August, A. D. 600--about the commencement of the Mahomedan era Amid the shadowy forms that peopled the heathen mythology we observe abundant proofs of the same extraordinary description. In the maha-wansi of Budhism, the vedas and puranas of Hinduism, and the theogony of Hesiod, the same facts are enrolled. In the mythology of Egypt the serpent bears an important character: represented in an upright form, it enters into all its rites and ceremonies. In Apollo and Hercules, Thor and Chreeshna, the event of triumph is adumbrated, and cannot be mistaken. In ages the most distant, and lands the most remote, the same belief seems to have been infused into their mythology, and perpetuated from age to age. When we examine ancient coins and medals, we shall find that, in many cases, the serpent cuts no inconspicuous figure. We are by no me...