210 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
the St. Thomas Christians with Cranganore or its immediate 
vicinity, and some other king of Southern India, since t they 
do not now mention Mazdai by name. 
Our Uniate friends of Malabar insist on the orthodoxy 
of Mar John of India. “At the Court of John Comnenus ! 
he found the envoys whom Calixtus Il. had sent to promote 
the union of the Greek and Roman Churches. The Archbishop 
went with them to Rome, received the pallium, and expose 
before the Pope and the Eedinals ae hehe ae that were 
Seas Syriac 2 Mas of the the Acta a (Ada. 14645), used by Wright and written 
A.D. 936 (ef. ibid., p. 2). ae s Gundaphar ‘King of Hin and thus 
where Wright wrote: ‘* An en Judas Laer ae entered ae se 
realm of India with the saeatan t Habban, Habban we 
Giidnaphar, the King of India, ” (tbid., p. 4), we must an intead ar 
e rea In Vv This rs a 
t in of 
during the last 400 years that I can trace them, never speak of St. Thomas 
mission in the nort of India. Is it nota fact that the Syrians and the 
r 
uninscribed. They reupen the whole question of the tradition of the 
omas Cheiatinns. which _ Kandapa Raja (Gondophares ?) at 
Mylapore and his palace in the se 
On Hind and Si 
‘ : e earli eda 
hardly regarded Sind as part of India, but distinguished sharply between 
tnd and Hind, eg denoted the whole region that we call India by the 
copula *‘ Hind and Sind.’”’ Yule, Hobson-Jebson, s.v. Sind. 
P Aleasnder Metropolita da Koll Hendo” is translated by Friar 
Paolino a S. Bart olomaeo (India Qrienialis Christiana, Romae, 1794, 
Pp. 263) by * Totius Malabariae Metropolita ~ xander.” (A.D. 
March 3.) However, at p. 88 ibid., he translate tes ‘ Alexander ah 
‘ Ale ae 
~~ 
= 
Ee 
~ 
cluded by now that the name does not occur. A I. (Comnenus 
reigned from 1081 to 1118; John II. (Comnenos) eas 1118 to 1143: 
apy I (Comnenus) from 1143 to 1180; Alexius I. (Comnenus) from 1180 
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2 The name of Mylapore does not occur in the records, though by 

