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  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 55,
  "chapterName": "1736. Edict of the Goa Inquisition",
  "pageFrom": 61,
  "pageTo": 64,
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      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n61\nThis is the occasion of the arrival of Thomas in India, to our\ncountries. The king and many inhabitants of India believed in\nChrist at the hand of the Apostle Thomas, and received baptism\nand priesthood. After having established seven churches, he went\nto Mylapo, where he was speared to death, and his body was carried\nby an angel to Edessa. The names of the seven churches built by\nSt. Thomas are first Mailapore, and then Coringalore, Parakar,\nIrapelli, Kokamangalam, Niranam, and Tirobancore. This\nhappened in A.D. 52. From this date the faithful diminished\nlittle by little in our country. At that time, St. Thomas appeared\nin a vision to the Metropolitan of the town of Edessa, and said to\nhim: Wilt thou not help India?' and he also appeared to Abgar,\nKing of Edessa, who was the king of the Syrians; and then by\norder of the king and the bishop three hundred and thirty six\nfamilies composed of children and grown-up people, clerics, men,\nand women, came to India under the leadership of Thomas the\nCanaanite, from Canaan, which is Jerusalem. All these sailed in\nthe sea and entered Coringalore, our country. They inhabited it\nby special permission from the king Siramon-Piramal, who was\nruling India at that time. All this took place in A.D. 345.\nFrom that time the Church of the country spread in all direc-\ntions, to the number of seventy-two churches; and in our days\nthere are over one hundred churches all the churches from Shero-\nkhai Shorkon to Shora Kullam, the church of Mylapo and Tiro-\nbancore. This is the origin of us Syrians. The Franks by their\ncraftiness and temporal temporal power ver captured half of all the churches.\nAbout half of the diocese of Cochi belongs to the Franks, but our\nChurch in Malabar is not counted in that diocese. Amen. What\nI have said above, I have said in very short terms, and it is not found\nin the Syriac language but only in our native Indian language...\n55. EDICT OF THE GOA INQUISITION (1736 A.D.)\nThis edict was issued by the Goa Inquisition with special reference\nto Indian conditions. It emphasised the abandonment of Hindu and\nMuslim customs, which had been retained by some of the converts.\nThe full text may be seen in Cunha Ruvara, Ensaio Historico da Lingua\nCocani, pp. 370-380 (doc. 59). Cited in Priolkar, The Goa Inquisition,\npp. 97-107.\nBy virtue of Holy Obedience and under the sanction of spiritual\nand temporal punishments incurred by those who disobey Apostolic\nMandates, we order all persons, born natives of India as well as of\nany other nation, who are resident in the island of Goa and the\nadjoining islands of the sub-district of Salseta and Bardez, both",
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      "pageNumber": 62,
      "ocrText": "62\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nthat\necclesiastic and lay people, whatever their grade, order, status,\ncondition dignity or pre-eminence, exempt or not exempt,\nthey faithfully and fully comply with and conform to all that we by\nthis edict resolve with the object of condemning and prohibiting\nfor all time the customs referred to in the preamble, in the manner\nundermentioned.\nAll the natives of India, resident in the island of Goa and other\nadjacent islands and in the sub-districts of Salsete and Bardez, are\nhereby ordered that during the celebration of their marriages before\nor after it or on occasions connected herewith, they should not use\nGaitas, or other Hindu musical instruments, as they have been\naccustomed to do till now.\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that they should not\ninvite, at the time of fixing their weddings, making payment of dowry,\nor giving wedding presents, relatives of the bridegroom and bride,\nwhether male or female, who commonly are known as Daijis or\nGotris, to attend such functions; and should any of them happen\nto be present uninvited, he should not be the one who receives in\nthe name of the bridegroom dowry or wedding presents from the\nbride, but this work should be done by the parents or guardians\nof the bridegroom or, if desired, by any other respectable person,\nwhether ecclesiastic or secular, who may be authorised for the\npurpose by the bridegroom or bride.\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that when dowry is\ntaken to the house of the bridegroom, wedding presents are handed,\nor betrothals are celebrated and in any other functions pertaining\nto wedding whether held on, before or after the wedding day, they\nshould not send from the house of the bridegroom to that of the\nbride, or vice-versa, flowers of any kind, betel leaves, areca-nuts or\nany other thing which could be substituted in the absence of these\nprohibited objects.\nThe same natives of India are hereby ordered that on the occa-\nsions of their marriages and all other functions which they might\norder or direct to take place for solemnising marriages, either in\nthe house of the bridegroom or the bride, songs, which it is custo-\nmary to sing in the language of the land and are commonly known\nas vovios, should not be sung, either publicly or in private; and\nwhen they desire to hold old celebrations in demonstration of their joy,\nthis should not be done with songs which may have a resemblance\nwith the said vovios; and female relatives or Daijis of the bridegroom\nshould never sing in such functions\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that on the occasion\nof their marriages whether in the house of the bridegroom or bride",
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      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n63\nor at any other place, they should not commence on fixed days\npreceding the marriage, to crush rice, grind condiments or flour,\nfry cakes and prepare other things necessary for wedding feasts;\nnor should these services be carried out in the first place by any\nparticular relative or Daiji of the bridegroom or bride. These\npreparations should be started at such opportune time as may be\nconvenient to expedite things and with the participation therein\nsimultaneously of as many persons as may be necessary, without\nany order of preference, or respect for any custom so far observed.\nThe same natives are hereby ordered that in the functions of\ntheir marriages or other functions which may be ordered or directed\nto take place in connection therewith, they should not anoint the\nbridegroom or bride, either together or separately, with a mixture\nof ground saffron, milk, coconut oil, rice powder, crushed leaves of\nabolim or any other things, especially on the day of the betrothal,\nthe eighth day preceding marriage, the day preceding marriage,\nthe day of marriage, the day following marriage or the third, fifth\nor eighth day following marriage\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that when their sons\nand daughters are born, they should not be received at birth or\nplaced after they are born on raw rice.\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that on the sixth\nday of the birth of their sons and daughters, they should not\ncelebrate the function of keeping vigil with banquets, public or\nprivate, or gathering of many persons at their houses. When they\nbelieve that special care of children is necessary against the risk\nwhich children run on that day, they should not perform any act\nor ceremony which would exceed the requirements of such care.\nAnd since not only the natives of India but also many other residents\nof the island of Goa and other adjacent islands, as well as of the\nsub-districts Salsete and Bardez and even the Portuguese to this\nday celebrate the sixth day of the birth of the sons and daughters\nwith banquets and other festive demonstrations, we hereby forbid\nthe continuations of this custom in the form described above.\nThe said natives of India are hereby ordered that they should\nnot observe fasts on the eleventh day of the new moon or full moon,\nnor on any other days on which the Hindus are accustomed to fast\nin observance of their sect, and when it happens that on such days\nthey have the duty to fast according to the teachings of the Church,\nthey should do so in conformity with the said teaching, but the fast\nshould be observed in the manner of the Christians and not in the\nmanner in which the Hindus are accustomed to fast, not eating or\ndrinking any thing except at night and using only dry food and\nfruit.",
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      "pageNumber": 64,
      "ocrText": "64\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\nthat men should not either in public or at home wear Purvem\n(dhoti) as it is the custom of Hindu men to do and that women\nshould not wear cholis, as it is the custom of Hindu women to do...\nThe said natives of India and all residents of the said districts,\neven the Portuguese, are hereby ordered that they should not refer\nto or address any Christian person by the name or surname of a\nHindu\nThe said natives of India and all the residents of the said districts,\neven the Portuguese, are hereby ordered that in the processions,\ncamisades or any other festivals which they may hold in praise of\nGod or His saints, no Christian individual should go clothed in\nHindu apparel, nor should Hindus be admitted in the said functions\nfor dancing or participating in any entertainment nor should in\nthese be used rabanas, gaithas or any other Hindu musical instru-\nments which the Hindus are accustomed to use in the solemnities\nof their temples. Christians may use Hindu apparel only in dance\nwhich it is the custom to present on the day of the conversion of\nSt. Paul, or in any other similar genuine representation.\nthat in the processions, camisades or any other festivals, no\nindividual in jest or in the course of a burlesque representation\nshould disguise himself in the clerical dress or dress worn by the\nReligious, nor should indulge in any acts of mimicking the cere-\nmonies and rites of the Church.\nIt is ordered that in the Passos held during Lent, in which is\nrepresented the story of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, in\nthe churches of the clergy as also in those of the Regulars, there\nshould not be figures living or dead, other than those which repre-\nsent the said Lord, or an image of Our Lady or some Saints, which\nwould conduce to make the representation realistic, and there may\nalso be some figures of Angels, in accordance with the concessions\nof the Archbishop Primaz but in no form should there be the\nfigures of Pilatos, Judas, Anas, Caifax, Herodes or of the Pharisees,\nnor-any others except those mentioned above, from which results not\nonly scandalous indecencies but also much material idolatries.",
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