OT EE ——— a 
1923.] St, Thomas and San Thomé, Mylapore. 221 
(St. Thomas or Gondophares ?) ser whether it was possible 
to build without foundations in the sea. This won suit the 
Malabar pias of Gondophares’ baieae now buried in the sea 
at Mylapore. It would not suit the palace built by St. Thomas 
at a town of ee ae far inland on the side of Sind. 
e idea of Julai, Tathagata, or Nyorai, a title corres- 
ponding in China and Japan to the Christian bcaiats, dates 
from the time when Nagarjuna, a native of Western India, 
received the hidden acer me from an iron tower below the sea 
in Southern India. Cf. Mrs. E. A. Gordon, World-Healers or 
the Lotus Gospel and its higiavar 2 vols., Tokyo, The 
Pi sua Kabushiki-Kaisha (after 1912), pp. 12, 18, 20, 29n. 1, 
we 189. 11. The vine of St. Thomas and the vine of 
St. John.—Sir John de Mandeville speaks of a vine planted 
by St. John on Mount Sinai. “And then nigh [the Chapel 
of Elijah the Prophet] is the Vine that saoh John ths Evan- 
gelist planted, that Men call Raisins (Staphis).” Ch. 5, p. 74 
in Constable’ eos 1895.—Staphis, from the Greek, eae 
a bunch of grape 
P. 198. 12. se Fe John’s sixty-two kingdoms.—Mrs. Ki, A. 
Gordon in her Asian Cristology, p. 163, a work not now with 
me, has a passage on the et w ae tribes he Saeala Numer- 
ous other passages on the s mber, or on the number 72, 
may probably be found pS Si yee aes faint recollec- 
tions of my late readings. 
05. A he beige of youth visited by Sir John 
de Mandeville. —We read in The Marvellous Adventures of Sir 
John ee ee Be Neier Archibald Constable and 
Co., a we 5, p..2 
at a ate of that Mount fa great mount called 
Aaa eg near the city of Polombe, which is Coulam, Quilon} 
is a fair Well and a great, that hath Odour and Savour of 
allSpices. Andat every Hour of the Day he changeth his Odour 
and his Savour diversely. And whoso drinketh 3 Times of 
hat water of that Well he is made whole of all manner of 
Sickness that he [P. 207| hath. And they that dwell there and 
drink — at that Well they never have Sickness; and they 
em always voung. I have drunken thereof 3 or 4 Times, and 
methinketh I fare the better yet. Some Men call it the © Well 
of Youth.’ For they that often drink thereof seem always 
young- “like, and live, without Sickness. And Men oe that Well 
cometh a of Paradise, and therefor it is a virtuou 
It strikes me now, that, if Sir John did aa here copy 
from Parise John’s letter, he may indeed have been in India, 
On the side of Quilon. He is probably more explicit than 
Prester John in his pase et of Polombe. It may very well 
have been that near some Christian Church of the St. Thomas 
Christians the water of a well was credited with marvellous 
