THE LEGEND OF ST. THOMAS. 
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minister, who, in obedience to the Apostle's instructions, 
refused to live any longer with Charisius, her husband ; and 
the king had hardly received Charisius' complaint on the 
subject when he discovered that his owa wife, Mygdonia's 
sister, as well as his son, Juzanes, had both become converts 
to the same doctrine. 
Then at the command of Misdeus, King of India, the blessed 
Apostle Thomas was cast into prison, and he said, I glorify 
God, and I shall preach the word to the prisoners, so that all 
rejoiced at his presence And Thomas went and found 
the jailors fighting and saying: What wrong have we done to 
that sorcerer that, availing himself of his magic art, he has 
opened the door of the prison, and wishes to set all the prisoners 
free? And when he came, they stripped him and girded him 
with a girdle, and thus they stood before the king. And how, 
said Misdeus, hast thou run away and come to this country ? 
And Thomas said : I came here that I might save many, and 
that I might by thy hands depart from this body. And the king 
became impatient and he arose and took Thomas outside of the 
city, and a few soldiers accompanied him with their arms. And 
when they had gone forth three stadia, he delivered him to four 
soldiers and to one of the polemarchs and ordered them to take 
him into the mountain ' and to spear him ; ' but he himself 
returned to the city. 
^ The name of the place is usually given in early authorities as Calamina, 
which has been sadly tortured by etymologizers. (1) A Dra vidian etymology 
has been boldly provided for it. First it is changed into Calurmina and 
then we are told that Calur = a stone or rock, and mina = upon ! See White- 
house's ZM2^e?7«^sc/ii^/ii in p. Bark Land, p. 12, note. (2) A Semitic deriva- 
tion has been provided. And in this attempt there may be hope, but not on 
the lines which are usually followed. Thus Mr. Logan in his Manual of Mala- 
bar seems to adopt a suggestion by Bp. Melius, according to which Calamina 
is another form of Oolomath, a Syriac word, meaning hill-town, the same, 
it is alleged, as Maylapur ; so that the name Calamina is in some sense a 
translation of the name Maylapur. But [a] this assumes that Maylapur is 
derived from malai = a hill, which is by no means to be assirmed. Such a 
derivation had indeed the sanction of the late Dr. BumeU, but it is said 
by other experts to be open to linguistic objection, and, moreover, is topo- 
graphically inapplicable, as Maylapur in rerum naiura is not near any hill 
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