Indian Antiquary Vol 56

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
[ MAY, 1927
now humbly pray of his Excellency and his Council, trusting that they will not turn away their face from us. And therefore we pray God to spare them in good health and all welfare, and to give them blessing and prosperity."
The notes in square brackets, bearing the initials T.K.J. are by Mr. T. K. Joseph, Trivandrum.
1 The reason why St. Thomas is brought first to Mylapore seems to be that, somehow, in Malabar it was thought that Mylapore was the capital of Gondophares and that therefore Habban, Gondophares' mer. chant, would have taken St. Thomas first to Gondophares. But this goes against the Acta and the Malabar tradition that St. Thomas assisted first at the marriage feast at Sandarûk, which would be no other than Cranganore.
3 Parur.
3 Here we get near enough to Koṭṭakayal or Parur.
4
Clearly Matthew's Irapeli.
5 Pernetta ought to correspond to Land's Neranam. [Pernatta ought to be read Noranatta, locative of Neranam-T.K.J.]
6 Tiroeusngotta is, no doubt, Visscher's later Tierowangotta (Tiruvankôte). [Tiruvitânkôte is another form of Tiruvankôte.-T.K.J.]
7 Instead of Matthew's 92 years.
8 This is a Dutch word, left untranslated by Drury, and meaning 'magician.'
⚫ Manikka Vasakar. [Spelt Manikkavachakar and pronounced as such in Malayalam, but as Manik. kavâéagar in Tamil.-T. K. J.] A few years ago a German scholar published a work on this personage. I have not seen it. Perhaps some of our readers will draw to it the attention of our Malabar Christian scholars.
10 This important passage is slurred over by Matthew, with the result that the defection of 96 families is attributed to Manikka Vasakar, whereas, we are told here, it was a second apostacy. Where were those other Christians in India who came to the help of the Christians in Malabar? And at what time did this second apostacy take place? What was the exact cause of it? Further study will have to elucidate this statement of Bishop Gabriel.
11 This is Urfa, or Edessa; but it is quite possible that the meaning of the name was not known any more to Bishop Gabriel and others before him, as I have found to be the case in Malabar documents of a later period. Why should merchants from Jerusalem have been sent to India by the Archbishop of Edessa? After their visit to India these merchants should have gone to report to the Archbishop (Catholicus of the East ?) at Edessa. Colonists came, indeed, from Bagdad, and Nineveh, as we hear. The addition of Jerusalem to the places whence the colonists came is suspect.
13 Thomas Cana. [For the dates 345 and 745 A.D. for Thomas Cana see my Malabar Xtian Copper Plates, Preface, ii, and p. 89.-T.K.J.]
13 Important passage omitted by Matthew. The nature and occasion of this separation ought to be examined. Has it anything to do with the division into Northists and Southists? Did it not give rise to two eras. the new era of Quilon for one party, and an older era maintained for a time by the other party, 6.e., the Salivahana era, or even the Vikrama era, which I take with Wilford to have been the era of Augustus and to have been started from Cranganore. [But see Camb. Hist. of India, I, ch. XXIII for Prof. Rapson's conclusion-T.K.J.]
14 Pheroz, Prodh. Budh Periodeutes ?
15 Matthew's Sakirbirti: Yule's Chakravartti.
16 Mar Denha.
17 A bad spelling for Jaballaha.
18 1580 in Matthew.
19 D. Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, who also governed as 19th Governor of India frora 3-5-1606 to 28-5-1609.
20
Mar Ignatius in Matthew.
21 This is supposed in Matthew to have happened at Cochin. At Mylapore Mar Ignatius was the guest of the Jesuits.
22 Maṭṭâñchéri (Cochin).
24 Sic for Ryklof.
25 Bracketed by Visscher or Drury.
23 [Cassanarios: priests-T.K.J.]
26 I do not not believe this statement about Mar Simon, Bishop of Adana, who at Pondicherry lived in communion with Rome, a friend of the Capuchins and Jesuits. Ho was not a prisoner there. He left his property or part of it to the Jesuit seminary, near Pondicherry. Paulinus (India Or. Christ., Rome, 1797, p. 259) says that in the Angamale conventicle of 1787 it was said he had been driven out of Malabar and had been killed by the Carmelites and Jesuits at Pondicherry. (I do not know of Carmelites then at Pondicherry.) Mar Simon died of an accident on 16-8-1720 at Pondicherry: he fell into a well while washing in the early morning and was drowned. Cf. also Trav. Manual, II, 190-191.