{"pages":{"9":{"imagePath":"H:\\web_projects\\corpus-web\\electron-app\\data\\5e07978430078cb56ea89a104e5a0c0e50b3aa1618e48c486c8af005ae015143\\raw\\pages\\00033-1d16ffb67edcd0d86881.webp","width":1170,"height":1680,"segments":[{"text":"SOURCE MATERIALS","box":{"x":494,"y":162,"width":246,"height":20}},{"text":"9","box":{"x":1044,"y":158,"width":27,"height":17}},{"text":"(Socotra), which is situated in the same Indian sea, and where the","box":{"x":164,"y":210,"width":900,"height":34}},{"text":"inhabitants speak Greek having been originally colonists sent","box":{"x":169,"y":238,"width":894,"height":32}},{"text":"thither by the Ptolemies who succeeded Alexander the Macedonian,","box":{"x":168,"y":265,"width":894,"height":32}},{"text":"there are clergy who receive their ordination in Persia, and are:","box":{"x":168,"y":293,"width":904,"height":35}},{"text":"sent on to the island, and there is also a multitude of Christians..","box":{"x":168,"y":320,"width":901,"height":34}},{"text":"I sailed along the coast of this island, but did not land upon it.","box":{"x":169,"y":349,"width":891,"height":35}},{"text":"I met, however, with some of its Greek-speaking people, who had","box":{"x":168,"y":377,"width":897,"height":35}},{"text":"come over into Ethiopia. And so likewise among the Bactrians,","box":{"x":171,"y":406,"width":894,"height":34}},{"text":"and Huns and Persians, and the rest of the Indians, and throughout","box":{"x":169,"y":434,"width":896,"height":31}},{"text":"the whole land of Persia there is no limit to the number of churches.","box":{"x":171,"y":461,"width":898,"height":28}},{"text":"with bishops and very large communities of Christian people, as.","box":{"x":171,"y":489,"width":903,"height":34}},{"text":"well as many martyrs, and monks also living as hermits.","box":{"x":169,"y":518,"width":745,"height":32}},{"text":"13. STONE CROSS INSCRIPTIONS (6th or 7th Cent. A.D.)","box":{"x":172,"y":604,"width":894,"height":31}},{"text":"Five stone crosses, probably the earliest physical remains of Chris-","box":{"x":255,"y":663,"width":760,"height":28}},{"text":"tianity in India, have been discovered in South India of which three","box":{"x":218,"y":687,"width":798,"height":29}},{"text":"crosses bear inscriptions on them. Two of these are in the Valiya-","box":{"x":218,"y":712,"width":796,"height":29}},{"text":"pally, Kottayam, and one is at the traditional site of the martyrdom","box":{"x":218,"y":738,"width":796,"height":29}},{"text":"of St. Thomas at St. Thomas Mount, Madras. The design of these","box":{"x":218,"y":762,"width":796,"height":27}},{"text":"crosses as well as the inscriptions on them are identical. Dr. Burnell","box":{"x":216,"y":786,"width":801,"height":28}},{"text":"assigns them to the sixth or seventh century A.D., on palaeographical","box":{"x":217,"y":811,"width":798,"height":28}},{"text":"grounds. A translation of the Pahlavi inscriptions, by Burnell, may","box":{"x":213,"y":836,"width":802,"height":29}},{"text":"be seen in M. Labbe Hue, Christianity in China, Tartary and Tibet,","box":{"x":216,"y":862,"width":799,"height":27}},{"text":"Vol. I, p. 27, cited in E. M. Philip, The Indian Church of St. Thomas,","box":{"x":214,"y":887,"width":801,"height":29}},{"text":"p. 92.","box":{"x":217,"y":917,"width":73,"height":24}},{"text":"In punishment by the cross (was) the suffering of this one;","box":{"x":213,"y":970,"width":854,"height":34}},{"text":"He who is true God, and God above, and guide ever pure.","box":{"x":164,"y":998,"width":777,"height":29}},{"text":"A different translation is given by C. P. T. Winkworth in 'A New","box":{"x":237,"y":1035,"width":829,"height":28}},{"text":"Interpretation of the Pahlavi Cross-Inscriptions, Kerala Society Papers","box":{"x":217,"y":1062,"width":843,"height":28}},{"text":"Series 3, pp. 166-168.","box":{"x":221,"y":1091,"width":246,"height":24}},{"text":"My Lord Christ, have mercy upon Afras, son of Chaharbukt,.","box":{"x":211,"y":1143,"width":864,"height":32}},{"text":"the Syrian, who cut this.","box":{"x":171,"y":1174,"width":322,"height":29}},{"text":"The second cross at the Valiyapally bears a Syriac verse from St. Paul's..","box":{"x":238,"y":1208,"width":843,"height":29}},{"text":"Epistle to the Galatians, Chapter 6, vs. 14.","box":{"x":217,"y":1237,"width":505,"height":27}},{"text":"Let me not glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.","box":{"x":216,"y":1293,"width":782,"height":31}},{"text":"In 1922 a stone cross at Kadamattam Orthodox Church caught the.","box":{"x":242,"y":1333,"width":833,"height":27}},{"text":"attention of scholars. The Pahlavi inscription on this cross is differents","box":{"x":216,"y":1359,"width":862,"height":27}},{"text":"from that on the others. A translation by Jivanji Jamshedji Modi is cited","box":{"x":217,"y":1383,"width":850,"height":29}},{"text":"in H. Hosten, Antiquities from San Thome and Mylapore, p. 332.","box":{"x":221,"y":1412,"width":742,"height":27}},{"text":"I, a beautiful bird from Nineve, (have come) to this country.","box":{"x":216,"y":1467,"width":784,"height":34}},{"text":"Written by Mar Shapur.","box":{"x":242,"y":1498,"width":337,"height":32}},{"text":"Holy Messiah, the forgiver, freed me from thorn (i.e., affliction)","box":{"x":210,"y":1521,"width":855,"height":35}}]}}}