1923.] St. Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 209 
Father Bernard of St. Thomas, T.0.C.D., tells me that 
the St. Thomas Christians have no traditions or documen tary 
evidence about Gaspar, the Perumal of Jaffna, one of the 
Magi baptised a Quilon by St. Phomas, on whom see Maffei 
in our Part I, ee, 
f that were ne should we not say that the Malabar Chris- 
tians have simply placed in Southern India the kings who, 
according to the Acta, were converted by St. Thomas? These 
would be st Soin and his brother Gad, or the King of 
Helioforum, a place to be identified perhaps after all with 
Melinporam (Mylapore) ;* the adios of Sandaruk, identified Ey 


ended sei the three Magi. Cf. Cath. Per X1V, 400; and 
og Britann., X1X (1885), 715, Til; Spl. S: 
! de Barros (da Asia, Dec. 3, Bk.7, ch 11, pp. 236-237, Lisbon edn., 
1777) had the following from a Malabar Deiat? es had gone to 
Portu al in the reign of D. Joao, in psn o lea ** This Chris- 
been made by the Apostle St. Thoma a other disciple, there was the tom 
of the Sibyl, ‘aalad the Indian Sibyl, and that this Church had been her 
oratory. And that, at her warning, “ er announcing the Birth of 
i i she Islan i 
a ew 
we write in our Geography, when we speak of lis cities of Nazua and 
Balla, which are at the back of sone ridge toi oe along the 
coast of Mascate, which Province the Moors call Ym 
On the Magi, an inexhaus tib ble eubject, see Yule's notes in Marco 
Pe .! Nidal pp. 79- ie Cathay, I (1866), 50, 51. Why should some 
riters Jafina? Because his 
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cannot find the passage in Yule’s extracts from de’ Marignolli in his 
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** The town of Gondophares no name a ont to as a il se 
9, the manuscripts of which call it Eliforum, Y ene 
infocus, Hierapolis.” Sylvain Lévi in Zndia aga tay 1904, 12, 1. 
Mr. Burkitt (Indian ] Aasiqually, 1903, p. 160) says that = British 
