Saturday, 7 January 2012

Antony Kutty Annaviar (fl. 1710-1730)


Primary

  • Aradanai Prasagam. 
  • Arul Vasagam.

Lay colleague of Beschi. [ACT 1:44]

Joseph Mary of Bernini (fl. 1730)


  • Dialogue between a Hindu and a Christian. [ACT 1:44.]

[Mar] Thoma IV (1686-1725)


Letters from Mar Thoma IV (1686-1725), head of the Jacobite community in Malabar, to Antioch, Leiden, and Batavia. In Syriac. Contain notes on the history of the Malabar churches, and requests to send bishops and priests. Requests also for Dutch help against the Portuguese clergy. 1709, 1713, 1715, 1717, 1720, 1728. Printed in part in Leiden, 1714, 1863. [Schurhammer 1963: 333ff.] [ACT 1:43.]

Friday, 6 January 2012

Anonymous, Chamo Bedo (c. 1700)

Chamo Bedo. [Veda of Final Rest.] Anonymous MS, c. 1700, issued by F.S. Ellis. Asiatic Researches. Royal Asiatic Society, Bengal, 1822. [Asian Christian Theologies 1:43.]

Anonymous, Ezour Vedam


  • Ezour Vedam. [The Jesus Veda.] Ed. F.S. Ellis. Asiatic Researches. Royal Asiatic Society, Bengal, 1822. [Dialogue between two Vedic sages, one monotheist and one polytheist, in which the monotheism of ‘pristine Hinduism’ prevails and is presented as pointing to Christian truth. This is one of 8 multi-authored or anonymous MS extant in both Sanskrit and French versions, possibly from Tamil and Bengali originals. Asian Christian Theologies 1:43.]
  • Ezourvedam: A French Veda of the Eighteenth Century. Ed. Ludo Rocher. University of Pennsylvania Studies on South Asia, 1. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1984. [Amaladass and Young 376.]

Verse narratives, Church in India, 16-17th centuries


  • Ramban Song. [The Thomas Parvam.] This exists in many ancient traditions, and is believed to originate from a disciple of St Thomas. Recounts the coming of Thomas to India, his travels, the founding of many churches, and ends with his martyrdom at Mylapore in 72 CE. Many versions. Printed in Orientalia Christiana 32 (1933). [1:41.] [Same as Rabban Pattu? see Asian Christian Theologies 1:6]
  • Pingali Ellana Rayadu (c. 1603). Tobhya Carita. [Telugu.] Narrative of the Thomas tradition written by a Brahman poet. [1:42.]

Letters, Church in India, 16-17th centuries


  • Letter of four bishops of Malabar to Patriarch Mar Elias. 1504.
  • Letters of Mar Jacob of Cochin to John III of Portugal. 1524, 1530. Recount the earliest contacts between the Syro-Malabar Christians and the Portuguese. [Asian Christian Theologies 1:41.]
  • Letter of Mar Aithalaha of Mylapore to Archdeacon Palliveettil, 1652. Conflicts resulting from western intervention in doctrine, liturgy, leadership.
  • Letter of Mar Gregorios to Syrian priests in his diocese. 1668. As above.
  • Letters by priests Jacob, Zachariah, Thomas, Paulos, Luka Alexandros, and others, from Malabar to Rome. 1658. 1659. [Kuriakose 1982. Thekkedath 1988.] [ACT 1:41.]