New Evidence on the Sixteenth-Century East Syriac Missions in the Malabar Coast: The Muttuchira Inscription (1581 CE) in Context

The present study deals with an inscription on a granite stele in the township of Muttuchira, Kottayam District, Kerala, India. The inscription was written in Malayalam, in the ancient Dravidian vaṭṭeḻuttu script, in 1581. It commemorates the erection of a series of open-air crosses, as well as the...

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Authors: Perczel, István 1957- (Author) ; Chandran, Saranya (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2024
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 5, Pages: 1-33
Further subjects:B vaṭṭeḻuttu script
B Nestorian anti-colonial resistance in Kerala
B Open-air crosses and Persian crosses
B Christian epigraphy
B bishops and archdeacons
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