
1923. ] St. Thomas and San Thome, Mylapore. 167 
“The town itself,’ [P. 183] he said, Rader the body of 
the venerable Apostle Thomas rests in t word, is called 
Ulna.' It is the capital and ruling city of “the whole of our 
kingdom.’ Indeed, the size of that city is so great that it 
takes a four days’ journey to go round. ‘Such is the thickness 
of the walls encompassing it that at least two chariots can go 
abreast on its summit ; but its height surpasses that of a high 
tower... The Phison, one of the rivers of Paradise, flows 
through it.+ Its waters, which are most limpid, throw up 

Ulna might be a copyist’s mistake for Melia began epi One of 
the dhcimarts as remarked by the Rev. H. K. Mann and W. Germann, has 
Ultima. Some medieval piste ss indeed speak of Mylapore as a sort of 
t li 
Ultima.—In case Mar John MIL. ba 2 to Mesopotamia, sometimes in- 
om in India by Syrian writers, Ulna might be a mistake for Urfa 
{ sa). 
ain L122] rota hah might indeed cobs been es one of the most 
rtant towns of e Coromandel Coas However, Marco Polo (A 
1298) lle = - was not m gt frequented | ail trader 3. 
ur ancie Indian re enorm Think of 
Mandi saved Wein Think e our modern Caloutta with ite sebuibn: It 
s not said tl the w r the town was walled in. As for the 
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on making himself interesting, as much as on humbling the Romans. 
But, after Re sai apie mildest nels on on the text, we do not see 
how the pas applicable to Mylapore. The Mylapore of our 
pacity rie ei Tess than 200 years after Mar John III., does not 
appear to have been walled. 
The Portuguese n never allude to walls anterior to aban! arrival (1517 or 
1522). §. Thomé was walled at least twice, in 1611 or 1624, and about 
1690. Th walle were Ndissalitled the second sine. phone 97. Cf. 
Love, Vestiges of Old Madras, 1, 576. Now no traces of walls are visible, 
ar Sad 
ould require much good-will to see in the four days’ circum- 
ference ‘OF the town an SR a to ihe! our leagues of ae donated by 
Bukka Raja to the Byers re shri 
Ww ame Phison epilieal by the Syrians to the Indus 
perhaps also to the ‘Caeaes A geographical fragment in the Liber Cali 
pharum published by Land in his Anecdota Syriaca (Lugduni- Batavorum, 
Vol. I, 1862, p. 122) has: ‘* And these are the biggest rivers: : = Indus 
es a 
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2 
2 
or Pison, the Nile or Genon, the Tigris or Phrat, the Jordan phis- 
sus, the is (? - smas Indicopleustes (A.D. 535) — 
: ese 
‘The river Phison [Indus] divides India from the buns... .O 
(rivers of Paradise), the PhisOn is the river of India which some call Indus 
or Ganges It flows down from regions in the interior and falls 
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mouths into the Indi ee.’ CL McCrindle, Ancient India, 
A. Constable, Westminster, 1, _ Pseudo-Kallisthenes, who 
wrote abo .4 d whose treatise belongs to the Lausiac o- 
i i vi fi * ich 
vies of Palladius, writes: ‘* This river Ganges is in our opinion that whic 
: called in Scripture the Phis6n, one of the rivers which are said to go out 
rom Paradise.”’ (Ibid... 8 : 
ee also any pia es icstan W. 8. Smith, Dict. of the Bible 
2nd ed., Vol. a Pt. I, pp. 847-8, 8. v. capes ck olli’s strange 
account of the "Phison in in Yule’s Cathay, 1 ( » PP- 
hat of the Adyar of Mylapore? Would the — fit Edessa near 
the Euphrates? The rest of the story does not t apply to Edessa more 
