The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.78
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c31.78
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The name of Gondopharnes, and possibly those of two princes of his family, Guḍa and Abdagases, have been preserved in connexion with the legends of St Thomas in the literature of the early Christian church. The apocryphal *Acts of Judas Thomas the Apostle*, which contains an account of the ministry of St Thomas in India, exists in Syriac, Greek, and Latin versions; and of these the earliest, the Syriac, is supposed to date from before the middle of the third century a.d. The story, as told in this version, begins: