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The place of bis martyrdom is called Calamina by 

 HiPPOLYTUS, according to Mr. Turner. Calamina 

 is a TamuU denomination, and literally signifies earth, 

 and stones, alluding to the nature of tbe soil. It is 

 synonymous with Mana-para, which signifies the 

 same thing, according to F. Bartolemeo, a mis- 

 sionary acquainted with both the Sanscrit and Tamuli 

 languages : but I by no means conceive them to 

 be the same place. Cdld or Culu in Tamuli signifies 

 a stone, or Callou in French, and Mcina earth. Thus, 

 point Calymere, the true name of which is CdUi-mcdu, 

 signifies the stony hill. There were two bishops of 

 the name of Hippolytus, one of whom resided in 

 Arabia, and they were contemporaries, lire latter 

 probably wrote the treatise concerning the pere 

 grinations of the Apostles, and died, A. D. 230. 

 DoROTHEus, another bishop, born in the year 254, 

 wrote also on the same suliject ; and some fragments 

 of his work are to be found at the end of the Chroni- 

 con Paschale. There he asserts, that St. Thomas died 

 at Calamita (Cdld-medu,) which is synonymous with 

 Calamina, or nearly so. 



Some Manicheans, at a very early period, went 

 to the Malabar Coast : for, according to La Croze, 

 in his liistor}- o^ Christianism in India, the Christians 

 of that countr}' said, that, before they had sub- 

 mitted to the jurisdiction of the CathoUcos, or Ncsto- 

 rian Patriarch, and of course, before the arriv^al of 

 Mar-Thome', there came into their country a cer^ 

 tain Mannacavassar, who preached a new doctrine, 

 seduced the people by his prestiges, and introduced 

 his errors. La Croze did not understand the mean- 



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