Tharisapalli plates

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Tharisappalli Copper Plate (849 AD) is a copper-plate grant issued by the King of Venadu (Quilon) Ayyan Atikal Tiruvatikal to the Christians in Malabar in the 5th regnal year of the Chera ruler Sthanu Ravi Varma. The inscription describes the gift of land to the Teresa Church near Quilonto the Christians led by Mar Sapir Iso.[1]

There are two sets of plates as part of this document, and both are incomplete. The first set documented the land while second set documented the conditions. The signatories signed the document in Hebrew, Pahlavi, and Kufic languages. [2]


References

  1. ↑ "A Survey of Kerala History - A. Sreedhara Menon - Google Books". Books.google.co.in. Retrieved 2012-08-29. 
  2. ↑ M. K. Kuriakose, History of Christianity in India: Source Materials, (Bangalore: United Theological College, 1982), pp. 10-12. Kuriakose gives a translation of the related but later copper plate grant to Iravi Kortan on pp. 14-15. For earlier translations, see S. G. Pothan, The Syrian Christians of Kerala, (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1963), pp. 102-105.

See also

  • K. Sivasankaran Nair, Venadinte Parinamam, D C Books (Kottayam), 2005.
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