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DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCES

The claim that early Hindu Sanadhana Dharma was indeed Thomas Christianity and that it later degenerated through heretic influence to the current form of Hinduism may sound like an impossible claim.  However deep within the Hindu Worship, Jesus is still hidden, even though it is not evident to every worshipper.

1.  Naamaavaly – The liturgy of the Temple extolling the deity

Naamavaly – a series of names describing a deity is a common liturgical form in every Hindu worship.  Here is a liturgical song, which is sung in almost all Dravidian temples even today.  This was given by a Hindu practicing priest to me.  The legitimacy of this has been confirmed through other sources.  I am told that there are three more lines to it.  Read this worship song carefully:

The interesting thing about this liturgy is that even though it is sung in every Tamil Temple, there is no deity who can be identified with this description.  You cannot deny that only Jesus will fit the description.  How did this Naamavaly extolling Jesus came to be a central part of Hindu liturgy?  There is no doubt Jesus one of the deities in Hinduism

2.         Purusha Prajapathy – The Person of the Lord of Hosts
Now let us take the Rig Vedic chapters II and X, which I have mentioned earlier, .were written in Sanskrit after 150 AD.  In these chapters, the Veda presents the Person (Purusha) of Prajapathy.  Prajapathi literally means The Lord of Hosts. (Praja = subjects, host      Pathi = Lord.)  However, the striking thing about Prajapathi is his characteristics.  I will quote the texts that describe Prajapathi with striking resemblance to the person of Jesus.

“Hiranyagarbha: samavarthaagre
Bhuuthasya jaatha: pathireka aaseeth
Sadaadhaara Prudhwivim dyaamuthemam
Kasmai devaaya havisha vidhemam”
(Rig Veda X:  121:1)

This translates as follows:

In the beginning, God and his supreme spirit alone existed.
From the supreme Spirit of  God proceeded Hiranya Garbha, alias Prajapathy, the first born of  God in the form of light.
As soon as he was born, he became the savior of all the worlds.

 “Thasmaad virraada jaayatha
viraajo adhi purusha:
Sajaatho athyarichyatha
Paschaad bhoomim adho pura:”

(Rig Veda X:90:5)

This translates as follows:

From that  first being, the universe came into being.  From that body of the universe came the omnipresent Person.

That Person thus became manifest, adopted various forms and character, and created the earth and other planets along with the creatures to live in them.

This is the same idea that Paul Preached.

“He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.  He is before all things, and in him, all things hold together.” Col 1:15-17 

The Adi Purusha idea is very similar to the concept of the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament.  Here he is definitely identified with Jesus.

“Purusha evedam sarvam
Yadbhutham yacha bhavyam
Uthaamruthathwasya esaana
Ya daannenathirohathi”

(Rig Veda X:90:2)

This man, the first-born of  God is all that was, all that is, and all that will be. 

And he comes to this world to give recompense to everybody as per his deeds.

Rev 22:12  "Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done.

“Tham yajnam barhishi proukshan
Purusham jaathamagratha
Thena deva ayajantha
Sadhya rushayaschaye”

‘Purushasookta’
(Rig Veda X:90:7)

This man, the first born of the God, was tied to a wooden sacrificial post and the gods and the Kings along the Seers performed the sacrifice.

“Thamevam Vidwanamruthaiha bhavathy
Nanya pandha ayanaya vidyathe”

(Rig Veda X:90:16.  Repeated Yajur Veda XXXI:18)

This (sacrifice) is the only way for redemption and liberation of mankind.  Those who meditate and attain this man, believe in heart and chant with the lips, get liberated in this world itself and there is no other way for salvation.

Rom 10:9    That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Here are some additional surprises.

In the beginning God was there and he was a spirit.
(Ithereya Upanishad:1/1/1)

 Kathopanishad
“ Naiva vaacha na manasaa
Praapthum shakyo na chakshusha
Astheethi bruvathonyyathra
Kadam thadupalabhyathe ”
 

The Holy Spirit of the God cannot be reached with the eyes, mind, or words.  Only those who believe that He exists and says so, will be reaching Him.
(Katham 6:12)

 “Sa eekshatheeme nu loka
Lokaa Paalaanusruja ithi
Sodbhaaya eva purusham
Samudruthya moorchayaayt”

After the creation of the Firmament, Earth, and Waters, the Holy Spirit of the God thought like this:   ”I have created all the worlds.  For them I should create a protector (Savior).  With this intention, the Holy Spirit created a Person from His own self. 
(Ithareyopanishad 1. 1:3)

Yagnovy  Bhuvanasya  Nabhi.
Sacrifice is the important backbone of the world.

Sarvapapa  Pariharo  Rakthaprokshanamavasyam. Thadraktham Paramathmeva Punyadana  Baliyagam

Sprinkling with blood is the means of cleansing for sins. This blood is  given by God Himself through sacrifice.

Prajapathirdevebhyam  Athmanam  Yagnam  Kruthva  Prayaschittaha.

God offered Himself as the sacrifice for atonement for the sins of the world.

Prajapathiryagnaha.

God Himself was the sacrifice.

Yagnovaa Avathi  Thasya Chaya  Kriyathe.
Sacrifices being practiced are the shadow of the supreme sacrifice.

Nakarmana  Manushtanairna   Danasthapasavya Kaivalyam  Labhathe  Marthyah.

Cleansing of sins is not possible by baths, pilgrimages, giving alms or by following religious duties.

 "I know the (one) supreme Purush ... Only in knowing Him does one pass over death.  There is no other path leading to eternal life".
Svetasvataropanishad 3:8

 Nanyah pantha vidyate-ayanaya
 No other way is known for eternal life
Yajurved 31:18

3.       Bhavishya Purana

Bhavishya Purana is the “Consequential Old Stories.”  (“Bahvishyam” mean consequence of; while Bhavi means future) It is the retelling of history as a consequence of human fall.  The Prathisara Parva chapter of this book betrays its source as the Bible.  The Stories are exact replication from the Old Testament with the names altered slightly to make them Indian.  A sample of the portions to show this relation is given below:

“ In the eastern side of Pradan (Pradan means Main, Important, Capital of the country) city where there is a big God-given forest (Eden), which is 16 square yojanas in size. The man named Adama (Adam) was staying there under a Papa-Vriksha or a sinful tree (Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil) and was eager to see his wife Havyavati. (Hovah) “      ‘Prathisargaparvam’4:28

“The Kali purusha quickly came there assuming the form of a serpent. “

Genesis 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made.

“They lived by eating air with the leaves called udumbara

It is strange that when copying the story from the book of Genesis, even  the fact that the generations after Adam till Noah were vegetarians was acknowledged.

“After they had sons and all of them became mlecchas

                          “Mlechas” literally mean sinners.  All Adamic races became sinful

Adama's duration of life was nine hundred and thirty years

 Genesis 5:5  And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

He offered oblations with fruits and went to heaven with his wife.  His son was named Sveta-nama ( Seth-  nama = name), and he lived nine-hundred and twelve years.

Genesis 5:8  and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

“Sveta-nama's son was Anuta (Enosh), who ruled one-hundred years less than his father.”

Thus with the small variation in name the story goes alongside of the Genesis Story thus:

Genesis 5:10  and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:14  His son Kinasa (Kenan) ruled as much as his grandfather.

Genesis 5:17   His son Malahalla (Mahalalel) ruled eight-hundred ninety five years.

Genesis 5:20 His son Virada (Jared) ruled 960 years.

Enoch was taken up into the Heavens:

“His son Hamuka (Enoch) was devoted to Lord Vishnu, and offering oblations of fruits he achieved salvation. He ruled 365 years and went to heaven with the same body being engaged in mleccha-dharma.”

Genesis 5:23 – 24  and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:   and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Notice that God of the Old Testament is translated as Vishnu – which literally means “God of the Heavens” a term used by the Persian Zoroastrian Kings like Cyrus to refer to the Hebrew God.  Abraham,  Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel used that to refer to God.

The Flood Story

Genesis 5:31  His son Lomaka (Lamech) ruled 777 years and went to heaven.

“”His son Nyuha (Noah) ruled for 500 years.

He had three sons named Sima, Sama and Bhava. (And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ) Nyuha was a devotee of Lord Vishnu.

Once the Lord appeared in his dream and said: “My dear Nyuha, please listen, there will be devastation on the seventh day. Therefore, you have to be very quick that you make a big boat and ride in it. O chief of the devotees, you will be celebrated as a great king”.

Then he made a strong boat which was 300 feet long, 50 feet wide and 30 feet high. It was beautiful and all the living entities could take shelter in it. He then himself rode in it, engaged in meditating on Lord Vishnu.”

Genesis 6:15  And this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

“Lord Indra called the devastating cloud named Sambartaka and poured heavy rain continuously for 40 days.”

Genesis 7:12  And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

“The whole earth, Bharat-varsa, had merged in the water and four oceans came up together. Only Visala or Badarikasrama was not submerged. There were 80,000 great transcendentalists in Visala who joined with king Nyuha and his family. All of them were saved and everything else was destroyed.”

Nephilims

“The whole earth, Bharat-varsa, had merged in the water and four oceans came up together. Only Visala or Badarikasrama was not submerged. There were 80,000 great transcendentalists in Visala who joined with king Nyuha and his family. All of them were saved and everything else was destroyed.”

We can see that the story includes another group of people who were also saved.  – the transcendalists of Visala.  There is an   

                 indication of this in the Bible.

Genesis 6:4  The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also afterwards.

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Nephilim:   (Gen 6:4; Num 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanite tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen 6:4, "mighty men."

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How long was the flood ?

The total time of the flood of Noah works out to be exactly one year when we add all the various phases.  Author of Bhavishya Purana knew it.What we notice here that the author of the Bahvishya Purana was not just a copier -  but a scholar in Old Testament.

It is to be noted that the whole of Bhavishya Purana was written in Sanskrit and could not have been dated beyond 150 AD.  Is it not strange that we have had intense students of the Old Testament writing at least part of the Bhavishya Purana?

The story then goes on to Moses and then on to Jesus himself as he appears in the Indian Continent.  

“Then it was predicted that a master (Patriarch) will come
by the name of Moosa (Moses)  and his faith will spread all over the world.

When the era of Kali has reached three thousand years Jesus Christ appears with the name “Easa Maseeha” in the land of Huna.   King Shaka asked “May I know, who you are!”.  With apparent joy that male replied

“Know that I am the Son of God. I am born in the womb of a virgin. ‘Easa Maseeha’ is my well known name”.

(Bhavashya purana- Prathisarga parva, IIIrd part- 2ndchapter- 23rd verse)

Two things stand out from this analysis

1. It is certain therefore that India was very well aware of the Semitic religions and also knew Jesus as the Son of God, born of a virgin and by the name Esa Massih. 

Indian Scholars knew the Old Testament well and has critically studied it !!

2.  They knew the Old Testament and the New Testament stories not as a casual reader does but as a scholar. 

How did this happen, unless the Indian intelligentsia came across the Gospel long before the advent of the European Missionaries.

Thomas who was well founded in the Hebrew Traditions must have brought and introduced and taught them to the Indian Christian Community, which left these Puranas written in culturally relevant translation for the generations to come.