{"pages":{"15":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00039-4008cb7d9662777a38a7.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":497,"y":157,"width":246,"height":18}},{"text":"15","box":{"x":1033,"y":153,"width":39,"height":20}},{"text":"measured by the string, of all that may be counted or carried, in","box":{"x":167,"y":203,"width":903,"height":36}},{"text":"a word of all from salt to sugar, and from musk to lamp oil within","box":{"x":168,"y":233,"width":901,"height":31}},{"text":"the Codungalore harbour and the town between the four Talis","box":{"x":165,"y":259,"width":903,"height":35}},{"text":"and gramoms (villages) adjoining thereto, we have written and","box":{"x":168,"y":290,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"given the Copper Plate with water etc. to Iravi Kortan the Cheraman","box":{"x":169,"y":318,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"Lokaperroom Chettian and to his sons and sons' sons, in regular","box":{"x":167,"y":344,"width":904,"height":34}},{"text":"succession. With the knowledge of the Panniyoor and Chovoor","box":{"x":171,"y":373,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Gramom we have given it; with the knowledge of Venadoo and","box":{"x":165,"y":400,"width":905,"height":34}},{"text":"Onadoo have we given it; with the knowledge of Eranadoo and","box":{"x":168,"y":428,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"Vulwanadoo have we given it; we have given it for the time that","box":{"x":171,"y":456,"width":901,"height":32}},{"text":"Sun and Moon shall endure. With the knowledge of the above:","box":{"x":168,"y":482,"width":910,"height":31}},{"text":"has this been written and engraved by the hand of Nambi Chadayen","box":{"x":171,"y":512,"width":900,"height":32}},{"text":"Grand Goldsmith of the Cheraman country.","box":{"x":165,"y":542,"width":600,"height":29}},{"text":"20. MAR SOLOMON ON THE ST. THOMAS TRADITION","box":{"x":169,"y":634,"width":903,"height":28}},{"text":"(13th Cent. A.D.)","box":{"x":519,"y":668,"width":235,"height":29}},{"text":"In his Book of the Bee, Mar Solomon, a Nestorian bishop, gives","box":{"x":256,"y":722,"width":768,"height":29}},{"text":"an account of the St. Thomas tradition. E. A. Wallis Budge (ed.),","box":{"x":220,"y":748,"width":805,"height":28}},{"text":"The Book of the Bee, p. 105. Cited in C. P. Mathew and M. M.","box":{"x":220,"y":775,"width":803,"height":27}},{"text":"Thomas, The Indian Churches of St. Thomas, p. 9.","box":{"x":220,"y":800,"width":623,"height":27}},{"text":"Thomas was from Jerusalem of the tribe of juda. He taught","box":{"x":216,"y":855,"width":859,"height":29}},{"text":"the Persians, Medes, and the Indians; and because he baptized the","box":{"x":172,"y":884,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"daughter of the King of the Indians he stabbed him with a spear","box":{"x":171,"y":913,"width":905,"height":31}},{"text":"and he died. Habban the merchant brought his body and laid it in","box":{"x":175,"y":940,"width":904,"height":31}},{"text":"Edessa, the blessed city of our Lord. Others say that he was.","box":{"x":174,"y":969,"width":910,"height":32}},{"text":"buried in Mahluph, a city in the land of the Indians.","box":{"x":174,"y":997,"width":691,"height":32}},{"text":"21. MARCO POLO ON THE TOMB OF ST. THOMAS","box":{"x":227,"y":1097,"width":799,"height":28}},{"text":"(1292 A.D.)","box":{"x":544,"y":1130,"width":162,"height":29}},{"text":"Marco Polo, the Venetian traveller, gives an account of his visit","box":{"x":260,"y":1185,"width":768,"height":29}},{"text":"to the site of the tomb of St. Thomas in India. Yule, The Book of","box":{"x":227,"y":1210,"width":809,"height":28}},{"text":"Marco Polo the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of","box":{"x":220,"y":1235,"width":815,"height":28}},{"text":"the East, p. 341. Cited in G. M. Moraes, A History of Christianity","box":{"x":225,"y":1263,"width":805,"height":27}},{"text":"in India, pp. 49-50.","box":{"x":227,"y":1292,"width":217,"height":25}},{"text":"Nothing on earth would induce them to enter the place where","box":{"x":218,"y":1344,"width":862,"height":32}},{"text":"Messer St. Thomas is-I mean where his body lies, which is in a","box":{"x":175,"y":1372,"width":908,"height":32}},{"text":"certain city of the province of Ma'bar. Indeed, were twenty or","box":{"x":179,"y":1400,"width":903,"height":32}},{"text":"thirty men to lay hold of one of these govis and try to hold him in","box":{"x":178,"y":1429,"width":907,"height":32}},{"text":"the place where the body of the blessed Apostle of Jesus Christ lies,.","box":{"x":179,"y":1457,"width":910,"height":34}},{"text":"they could not do it! Such is the influence of the Saint; for it was:","box":{"x":176,"y":1486,"width":912,"height":32}},{"text":"by people of this generation that he was slain.","box":{"x":178,"y":1516,"width":633,"height":31}}]}}}