{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 20,
  "chapterName": "13th Cent. Mar Solomon on the St. Thomas Tradition",
  "pageFrom": 15,
  "pageTo": 15,
  "pages": [
    {
      "pageNumber": 15,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n15\nmeasured by the string, of all that may be counted or carried, in\na word of all from salt to sugar, and from musk to lamp oil within\nthe Codungalore harbour and the town between the four Talis\nand gramoms (villages) adjoining thereto, we have written and\ngiven the Copper Plate with water etc. to Iravi Kortan the Cheraman\nLokaperroom Chettian and to his sons and sons' sons, in regular\nsuccession. With the knowledge of the Panniyoor and Chovoor\nGramom we have given it; with the knowledge of Venadoo and\nOnadoo have we given it; with the knowledge of Eranadoo and\nVulwanadoo have we given it; we have given it for the time that\nSun and Moon shall endure. With the knowledge of the above:\nhas this been written and engraved by the hand of Nambi Chadayen\nGrand Goldsmith of the Cheraman country.\n20. MAR SOLOMON ON THE ST. THOMAS TRADITION\n(13th Cent. A.D.)\nIn his Book of the Bee, Mar Solomon, a Nestorian bishop, gives\nan account of the St. Thomas tradition. E. A. Wallis Budge (ed.),\nThe Book of the Bee, p. 105. Cited in C. P. Mathew and M. M.\nThomas, The Indian Churches of St. Thomas, p. 9.\nThomas was from Jerusalem of the tribe of juda. He taught\nthe Persians, Medes, and the Indians; and because he baptized the\ndaughter of the King of the Indians he stabbed him with a spear\nand he died. Habban the merchant brought his body and laid it in\nEdessa, the blessed city of our Lord. Others say that he was.\nburied in Mahluph, a city in the land of the Indians.\n21. MARCO POLO ON THE TOMB OF ST. THOMAS\n(1292 A.D.)\nMarco Polo, the Venetian traveller, gives an account of his visit\nto the site of the tomb of St. Thomas in India. Yule, The Book of\nMarco Polo the Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of\nthe East, p. 341. Cited in G. M. Moraes, A History of Christianity\nin India, pp. 49-50.\nNothing on earth would induce them to enter the place where\nMesser St. Thomas is-I mean where his body lies, which is in a\ncertain city of the province of Ma'bar. Indeed, were twenty or\nthirty men to lay hold of one of these govis and try to hold him in\nthe place where the body of the blessed Apostle of Jesus Christ lies,.\nthey could not do it! Such is the influence of the Saint; for it was:\nby people of this generation that he was slain.",
      "status": "completed"
    }
  ]
}