9. Jesus in India
Bogdan Georgievich LisitsaVikrama or Vikramaditya is the best king in the history of India, a national hero and an ideal ruler, the king of Ujjain in Western India, on the northern slope of the Vindhya range.
His name became a symbol and title, and many subsequent rulers added it to their names. After him, in India, the title "Vikramaditya" was minted on their coins by many rulers. He is remembered as a ruler who expelled foreign invaders from India. The legends tell of Vikrama's desire to benefit his people and his willingness to sacrifice himself and his personal interests for the benefit of others. He was famous for his generosity, courage, service to others, and lack of arrogance.
Vikrama's victories over the Indo-Scythians expanded his kingdom. He conquered Kashmir, Punjab and the eastern part of Rajaputana. Also, literary legends attribute to him dominion over Bengal, Hindustan, the Deccan and Western India.
Vikrama is Jesus Christ on the Indian throne. The name Vikrama means Lamb, which is one of the names of Jesus Christ. The word "Vikrama" is close to the word Lamb and words close to it: ram, sheep, goat:
Sheep:
Russian: Ovca, Portuguese: Ovelha; formerly: Ovehla; formerly: Ovehra
Ram:
English: Ram, Welsh: Faharen, Danish: Vædder, Swedish: Bage, Zulu: Inqama, Khosa: i-ram, Russian: Baran
Goat:
Finnish: Vuohi, French: Chevre; formerly: veChre, Hindi: Bakaree, Nepali: Bākhrā, Punjabi: Bakari
Vikrama and his life are described in the Indian medieval collection of stories "The Life of Vikrama", or "The Labors of Vikrama", or "The Acts of Vikrama". The text is written in Sanskrit, the author is Vriracha (Vrirasa). The hero of the stories is King Vikram. Vikram is an example of courage, dedication and generosity. The stories "The Life of Vikrama" were actively used in didactics.
Bogdan Georgievich Lisitsa, 15, Zarichchja str, Kostopol, Rivne region, 35000, Ukraine.
Vikrama is also mentioned in Vetala's Twenty-five Stories (Vetala-panchavimshati). This is a collection of Indian fairy tales in Sanskrit, popular in India and penetrated into the literature of other peoples, Mongolia, Tibet and others. The demon Vetala, who inhabits the bodies of the dead, tests King Vikramaditya in the cemetery on a dark night, telling him riddle tales.
A magician comes to King Vikrama and invites him to cast a spell in the cemetery on the fourteenth night of the dark half of the month to gain special magical power. The king agrees and appears at the agreed time at the cemetery. The wizard invites him to remove the corpse hanging from the tree and bring it to the place of the spell, but the king must not utter a word.
Then the demon Vetala, sitting in the corpse, begins to tell the king, who is carrying the corpse, a witty tale, after which he asks him which of the characters in the tale should be considered guilty. He threatens that if he does not receive an answer, he will tear the king's heart to pieces. As soon as the king answers, the corpse of the hanged man breaks out of his hands and is again hanging on the tree, and the king must return for him.
The demon again tells the tale and asks the king for his opinion, and this is repeated 25 times, thus creating 25 tales.
The main result of the "Twenty-five stories of Vetala": in order to get a special magical power, one cannot condemn others. This echoes the words of Jesus Christ:
1. Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(Matthew 7:1-5)
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King Vikrama's association with the corpse hanging from the tree points to him as Jesus Christ, who was also hung from the tree and died. This means that at the time of the creation of this cycle of fairy tales, it was still known that Vikrama and Jesus Christ are one and the same person.
The countdown of the Vikrama era begins in 57 BC, when Anna, the mother of Mary and the grandmother of Jesus Christ, was born, and the Samvat calendar (Vikram-samvat) is counted from her birth. This is a calendar common in India, in which the length of the solar year is related to the length of the lunar months. This calendar is closely related to the Celtic calendar and is based on the modern Nepalese calendar.
Vikrama is the hero of various Indian fairy tales and legends. In one of the legends in the Telugu language, it is said that Vikramaditya was the son of a brahmin who neglected his upbringing and forced him to do all sorts of menial work. This is Zechariah, the father of Ivan the Baptist and a close relative of Jesus. He came from the family of the priest of Abijah, a descendant of Aaron, i.e. was a Brahmin in the perception of the Indians. Since Joseph the Betrothed was old, he was about a hundred years old, Zechariah was in charge of raising Jesus. But in reality, he did not educate him, but forced him to do menial work.
Displeased with this, Vikrama secretly left his father's house and after many adventures reached Ujjain, married the daughter of the king there and became king. Jesus actually arrived in India after visiting many countries.
Vikrama engaged in severe austerities and thereby gained the grace of the goddess Kali. She promised to make him invulnerable from all enemies, with the exception of one. It also points to Vikrama as Jesus Christ, who went through a number of countries, creating kingdoms, and only in Jerusalem, which was part of the Roman Empire, was executed for no reason. Also, the goddess Kali promised him a thousand-year serene rule.
Bogdan Georgievich Lisitsa, 15, Zarichchja str, Kostopol, Rivne region, 35000, Ukraine.