And This Work Connects With St. Thomas Two Eastern Kings,
Whose Names Appear In The Syriac Version As Gudnaphar, Gundaphar,
And
Mazdai; and in the Greek version as Goundaphoros, Goundiaphoros,
Gountaphoros, and Misdaios, Misdeos; in the Latin version as Gundaforus,
Gundoforus, and Misdeus, Mesdeus, Migdeus; and in the remaining versions
in various forms, of the same kind, which need not be particularized
here." Mr. Fleet refers to several papers, and among them to one by Prof.
Sylvain Levi, Saint Thomas, Gondophares et Mazdeo (Journ., As.,
Janv.-Fev., 1897, pp. 27-42), who takes the name Mazdai as a transformation
of a Hindu name, made on Iranian soil and under Mazdean influences, and
arrived at through the forms Bazodeo, Bazdeo, or Bazodeo, Bazdeo, which
occur in Greek legends on coins, and to identify the person with the king
Vasudeva of Mathura, a successor of Kanishka. Mr. Fleet comes to the
conclusion that: "No name, save that of Guduphara - Gondophernes, in any way
resembling it, is met with in any period of Indian history, save in that of
the Takht-i-Bahi inscription of A.D. 46; nor, it may be added, any royal
name, save that of Vasudeva of Mathura, in any way resembling that of
Mazdai. So also, as far as we know or have any reason to suppose, no name
like that of Guduphara - Gondophernes is to be found anywhere outside India,
save in the tradition about St. Thomas."
XVIII., p. 357.
CALAMINA.
On this city of the martyrdom of St. Thomas, see Indian Antiquary,
XXXII., pp.
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