Storia do Mogor 281.19.8

281.19.8

In any case, this King of Tanjor, not satisfied with what he had done in his own territories against the Christians, wished still farther to have them persecuted and brought to destruction within the kingdoms of the princes, his neighbours. With this object he wrote, while still impelled by his rage, while the fire of his wrath was still burning, to the Queen of Madura and the King of Aurpaliam (? Udayar-palaiyam), representing to them the danger they incurred for their temples, and even for their thrones, if they did not expel the Christians and the Christian Brahmans — at any rate, if they did not hinder the free exercise of that religion and forbid the baptism of any of their subjects. In this way the numbers of the Christians would not increase. The first of these potentates answered that, just as some were allowed to eat rice and others meat, so also was it lawful for each man to practise or adopt whatever religion seemed to him the best.