This is usually sourced to the notorious forgeries by Nicholas Notovitch and Holger Kersten, the latter of which especially overlooks the elementary fact about

This is usually sourced to the notorious forgeries by Nicholas Notovitch and Holger Kersten, the latter of which especially overlooks the elementary fact about Rozabal (in Srinagar) that “Yuz Asaf” is a very believable gloss of “bodhisattva”, especially given medieval Arabic terminology. See Shahristani, al-Biruni, etc.