168 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [{N.S., XTX, 
ane sc gold and ne most precious gems, whence our people 
become passing wealthy. The whole of this city, as behoves, is 
inhabited by faithful Christies. No heretic or infidel can live 
among oo without either repentirg at once or dropping dead 
sudden 
Ab a small distance outside the ramparts of the town 
there is a lonely mountain surrounded on all sides by a-very 
deep lake Qn it rises a high tower. on the top of which 
stands the mother-church of the most blessed Apostle Thomas.® 
Around the said lake, on ~ outside, there are XII monasteries 
in honour of the XII Apestles.* The afo resaid mountain, on 
accessible to anyone during the year, nor does anyone aeshis 
venture to go to it. Only once a year does the Patriarch, 
whoever he be, enter it. with those who come from all sides to 
celebrate the sacred mysteries: for, when the day of the 
fae s feast eg eight days before it and as many 

than to oon, and; as Edessa was som ch nearer Rome, and in the 
ands o s Ss, a | a 
have refuted the story : applied to Edes ve may suppose that the 
: Sp mags Patriarch’ would ay the story inr nett India. Who could verify 
then ? But the only — in India claiming the tomb of St. Thomas 
gen have been Mylap 
According to Culea or - Syrian notions eae would have been a 
extraordinary in making the Phison issue from Paradise (Ceylon). 
appear at Mylapore, and eons oe rere as the Indus. See in sea a 
e 
this sentence appears from the seq Neither 
document speaks of Jews, as does the Latin hymn teins at the 
beginning of ge chapter. 
A deep | 
sound ihenad ihe to anyone kn wisettig presen nt onditi tions. sovide the alow 
Adyar flow 
. Tho ould 
a of sdecdtitsng the Miwnt as cheat on all sides ie a rs deep 
ake 
t the Ch 
sea? The confusion would be bad enough for an Indian Bishop who had 
not iain ate place. How shall we org oe segs if it comes 
from an ‘Indian Patriarch,’ who we must s se had presided at the 
vein’ ceremonies ? 
Less than 200 years later, there was no trace or souve of these 
twelve monasteries round the lake. None of the suuaieval  eavsans 
refers to them. There was not even a tradition about them or the lake in 
Portuguese times Portuguese picked up at Mylapore so many 
old traditions. I could understand ure Mylapore with icons of 
the Ive tles, for even now both the Church of the Luz and the 
e h 
Church at the Great oh _ t have eacha collection of such paintings. 
both the gift of Armenia 
