{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 19,
  "chapterName": "1225. Veera Raghava Pattayam, Copper Plate Grant to Iravi Kortan",
  "pageFrom": 14,
  "pageTo": 14,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 14,
      "ocrText": "14\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nWith the treasures given thee, kind father of the poor, thous\nbuildest a palace and raisest to life the king's own brother, and.\nthus presently thou winnest over the king himself and his people..\nThus, curing all the sick, thou passest preaching everywhere..\nNext thou art pierced with lances and crowned a martyr.\nThou despisest error; thou destroyest unbelievers for, in the\ncity where thou truly liest, there never lives any of the heretics,.\nJews, or pagans.\nAnd this happens openly every year on thy feast. Truly, such.\nwonder chances to no other saint.\n19. VEERA RAGHAVA PATTAYAM, COPPER PLATE\nGRANT TO IRAVI KORTAN (1225 A.D.)\nThis copper plate grant was given by King Veera Raghava tox\none Iravi Kortan, who was apparently the head of the Christian\nmerchants. They are at present under the custody of the Orthodox.\nChurch. They are written in Tamil-Malayalam. A translation is.\navailable in Nagam Aiya, The Travancore State Manual, pp. 125-126,.\nand in the words of Kookel Kelu Nair in The Madras Journal of Lite\nrature and Science. Cited in C. V. Cherian, A History of Christianity\nin Kerala, pp. 118-119.\nBeginning from Sri Veera Kerala, the Earth Ruler, the Man--\nLord, the Emperor, the sceptre has been swayed through a regular\nsuccession of many hundred thousands of years, when Sri Veera.\nRaghava Chukravurthi (the Emperor Veera Raghava) was in\npossession of the country and was seated in the Royal Palace, (the\nfollowing grant was made) in the year when Jupiter was in Capri-\ncornus on the twenty-first of the month of Meenam, Saturday, when,\n(as it is further implied) Saturn was in Pisces and the day of Rohini\nthe fourth Asterism. We have given Manigramam (the village\ncalled Mani) to Iravi Kortan (Curten) of the town of Mahadevor,\nthe grand Chettiar (merchant) of the Cheraman's country. We\nhave also given to him the right of Peelavata, of having Pavana-\ntungum house Pillar and of receiving /Purooperooma and Kadatoo\nand further the honour of having Valinchiyem and Tanichett in\nValinchiyam and moreover of having the privileges of Moora Cholloo\nand Moomata and Puncha Vaddium and Changoo and Pakal Veluka\nand Pavata Aymtolom and Coda and Vadooca Para and Idopati\nand Toranom and Tanichett, over the four Cheries, in the city of\nManigramam moreover we have given him as slaves the oil\nmanufacturers and the Ainkoody Cummalers, we have given to the\nLord of the town, Iravi Kortan, the Taragoo and Choomkom of\nall that may be meted by the Para, weighed by the balance or",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}