Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Lord Krishna crucified ??



The orthodox belief of Krishna's death relates that he was shot in the foot by a hunter's arrow while under a tree. With Bagaved-Gita and Brahminical traditions as resources the French scholar and Indianist Jacolliot recounts the death of Christna (Krishna) as, the Godman went without his disciples to the Ganges to work out stains. After thrice plunging into the sacred river, Krishna knelt and prayed as he awaited death, which was ultimately caused by multiple arrows shot by a criminal whose offenses had been exposed earlier by Krishna. The executioner, named Angada, was thereafter condemned to wander the banks of the Ganges for eternity, subsisting off the dead.

Jacolliot further describes Krishna's death thus:

The body of the God-man was suspended to the branches of a tree by his murderer, that it might become the prey of the vultures.

News of the death having spread, the people came in a crowd conducted by Ardjouna, the dearest disciple of Christna, to recover his sacred remains. But the mortal frame of the Redeemer had disappeared--no doubt it had regained the celestial abodes and the tree to which it had been attached had become suddenly covered with great red flowers and diffused around it the sweetest perfumes.

Jacolliot's description includes a number of arrows, instead of just one, which, along with the suspension in the tree branches, resembles the pinning of the god toa tree using multiple nails. Krishna's subsequent disappearance has been considered an ascension. Moreover, this legend is evidently but a variant of the orthodox tale, constituting an apparently esoteric tradition recognizing Krishna's death as a crucifixion. Also John Remsburg says in The Christ:

"There is a tradition, though not to be found in the Hindoo scriptures, that Krishna, like Christ, was crucified."

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