Indian Antiquary Vol 09

SR No.: 032501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 398
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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DECEMBER, 1880.]
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a church, as he also did at Trapeli and Guka Malabarian brethren desired. Therefore, not long maglam' and Nername and Tirubokut. Next he after, yea in these very days, with the help returned to Mailapur, where he was stabbed with a of the adorable God, and by order of the patriarch spear by the unbelievers" (p. 43).
of the East, Thomas of Jerusalem, the merchant Dr. Smith in the 7th lecture of his popular little went forth again, and with him the bishop who volume has made large use of Dr. Germann's had seen the vision, and at the same time pres. work, and gives the following version of another byters and deacons, and also men and women, quotation from the same source (vol. I, p. 124)':- young men and maidens, from Jerusalem and "Afterwards, when 160 truly Christian families of Bagdad and Nineveh, and they entered into a ship Malabar Christians were so long without presbyters and set sail for Malabar, and arrived at Maljomkare and leaders, a dissention arose among them, for what the year of the Lord 345." cause I know not, but some of them renounced the Germann devotes the 2nd chapter of his work to orthodox faith, and others did not. Those who re
| Pantænus and his mission; the 3rd to Theonounced it were 96 families, and those who retain. philus and this Thomas of Jerusalem; the 4th ed it were 64. At the same time a vision appeared
to the Manicheans and their connection with by night to the metropolitan of Edessa, who arose in Malabar; the 5th to Kosmas Indicopleu sthe morning and went to the Catholicus of the East, I tes and his mission in 529 A.D.; another to the and told him of the vision which he had seen, Jews in India,&c.;-and the early history is brought and when the Catholicus had heard it, he sent down, in the first division of the work, to the close messengers to all the churches and monasteries of the middle ages. The second division (pp. 315— and cities of the diocese, and convoked an assem- 770) gives a careful history of the church from 1498 bly. And when many flocks had met, with their to 1875, and is followed by a useful chronological bishops, and with merchants belonging to them, table, of which we give the first portion - he told them what the bishop had seen, and related B.C. 150. Hindus visit the valley of the Euphrates to them his words. Then one of them arose, viz., , 31. Alexandrin taken by the Romans, a a merchant, whose name was Thomas of Jeru
centre of communication. salem, who answered, saying, 'I have ere now , 20. Nikolaus of Damascus met with an Indian heard from foreign places and travellers a report
embassy at Daphne of Antioch. about Malabar and India.' When the patriarch 30 to A.D. 14. Embassies of the Tamil Paņ. heard this answer, he rose from his seat, went to
dyas of Madura and of the ruler of Thomas, embraced him lovingly, and thus address
Malabar, to Augustus. ed him, I entreat thee my very dear son, to go to -Hippalus discovers the south-weet monMalabar, to visit the inhabitants of the country,
soon. end to bring me back word as to what has befallen PP Jewish trading colonies in India. The them. Therefore Thomas of Jerusalem set out
Black Jews. The Beni-Israel.10 for Malabar, and coming to Maljom kare he saw A.D. 40. King Yndopherres in the Indus valley. the Thomas-Christians; and they were mutually cir. 52. The Apostle Thomas in India. pleased, the Christians telling him of the state of 55. King Gondopherres or Gundaphorus. their affairs, which when Thomas had heard, he 41-54. Claudias receives an embassy from gave them courage and exhorted them with kind
Ceylon. 11 words, and straightway he embarked and returned
P Brahman pilgrims to the Island of the into his country. On his return he went to the
Whites (6retadvipa). patriarch, and said to him, Lo! I have seen with cir. 69. Emigrant white Jews build MabAdevamy eyes the Thomas-Christians, and we have
pattanam (Kodángaldr). spoken together with mutual satisfaction, and » 200. Pantænus in north-western India. I left them hopeful and returned !' The patriarch 233. Request of the Edessans for the transfer answered, Although I am ready to lay down my
of the bones of the apostle Thomas life for them, I ask you to be pleased to point
from India. out what these my children would have me do for - Thomas the Manichean sent to India: he them.' Then he stated to the patriarch what the
returns back.
• Yerapalli near Eddapalli, N. E. from Cochin.-ED.
• Probably the modern Kothamangalam in Cochin, or possibly Kajonkambalam at Udiampirúr.-ED.
• The modern Neranam S. W. of Cochin called Naranam by Menezes, and Nernote by Da Perron.-ED.
Germann, pp. 84, 85, in Smith's Med. Miss. pp. 255, 256; Mar. Gabriel in the account given to the Rev. J. C. Visscher, Dutch chaplain, Letters from Malbar (1743) makes similar statement; see Whitehouse's Ling. of
Light, p. 61n.
* This seems to be a mistake; Strabo speaks of only one embassy from one king, Pandion (XV, i. 4); and Florus says it was four years on the road (Híst Rom. IV, 12); see Priaulx's Apoll. of Tyana, p. 68.-ED.
Probably about A. D. 47; conf. Ind. Ant. vol. VIII, p. 888.-ED.
20 See Ind. Ant. vol. III, p. 822. 11 Priaulx (u. 8. p. 99) indicates 48-47 A.D.