The Christian missionary Georgius, who found the worship of the crucified God in India, consoles himself by saying: "That which P. Cassianus Maceratentis had told me before, I find to have been observed more fully in French by the Living De Guignes, a most learned man; _i. e._, that _Crishna_ is the very name corrupted of Christ the Saviour."[285:2] Many others have since made a similar statement, but unfortunately for them, the name _Crishna_ has nothing whatever to do with "Christ the Saviour." It is a purely Sanscrit word, and means "_the dark god_" or "_the black god_."[285:3] The word _Christ_ (which is not a name, but a title), as we have already seen, is a Greek word, and means "the Anointed," or "the Messiah." The fact is, the history of Christ Crishna is older than that of Christ Jesus. Statues of Crishna are to be found in the very oldest cave temples throughout India, and it has been satisfactorily proved, on the authority of a passage of _Arrian_, that the _worship_ of Crishna was practiced in the time of Alexander the Great at what still remains one of the most famous temples of India, the temple of Mathura, on the Jumna river,[285:4] which shows that he was considered a _god_ at that time.[286:1] We have already seen that, according to Prof. Monier Williams, he was _deified_ about the fourth century B. C. Rev. J. P. Lundy says: "If we may believe so good an authority as Edward Moor (author of Moor's "Hindu Pantheon," and "Oriental Fragments"), both the name of Crishna, and the general outline of his history, were long anterior to the birth of our Saviour, _as very certain things_, and probably extended to the time of Homer, nearly nine hundred years before Christ, or more than a hundred years before Isaiah lived and prophesied."[286:2] In the Sanscrit Dictionary, compiled more than two thousand years ago, we have the whole story of Crishna, the incarnate deity, born of a virgin, and miraculously escaping in his infancy from Kansa, the reigning monarch of the country.[286:3] The Rev. J. B. S. Carwithen, known as one of the "Brampton Lecturers," says: "Both the name of Crishna and the general outline of his story are long anterior to the birth of our Saviour; and this we know, _not on the presumed antiquity of the Hindoo records alone_. Both Arrian and Strabo assert that the god Crishna was anciently worshiped at Mathura, on the river Jumna, where he is worshiped at this day. But the emblems and attributes essential to this deity are also transplanted into the mythology of the West."[286:4]