The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.s1.72

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⁷ Sokrates Scholastikos (fifth century) and other writers testify that the relics were enshrined at Edessa in Mesopotamia, where a magnificent memorial church was erected. The story in the text and the references to early Christian writers are taken, without verification, from the almost exhaustive essay by W. R. Philipps, entitled ‘The Connection of St. Thomas the Apostle with India’ (*Ind. Ant.*, vol. xxxii, 1903, pp. 1–15, 145–60). Bishop Medlycott’s book, *India and the Apostle Thomas*, 1905, supplies an invaluable collection of ecclesiastical texts.