HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Maues
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Gondophernes
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Kanishka
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Detailed explanation-1: -Puri says that the dates given by Philostratus in his Life of Apollonius of Tyana for Apollonius’ visit to Taxila, 43–44 AD, are within the period of the reign of Gondophares I, who also went by the Parthian name, Phraotes. Saint Thomas was brought before King Gundaphar (Gondophares) at his capital, Taxila.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to traditional accounts of the Saint Thomas Christians of India, the Apostle Thomas landed in Muziris (Cranganore) on the Kerala coast in AD 52 and was martyred in Mylapore, near Madras in AD 72.
Detailed explanation-3: -Establishing the hierarchy of the Latin Catholic church in India in 1886, Pope Leo XIII referred to India as having first received the light of the gospel from Apostle Thomas.
Detailed explanation-4: -After Jesus’s death, according to the Acts, the apostle had been summoned to India-and his martyrdom-by a mysterious king, Gondophares. Biblical scholars of the 19th century were at first very sceptical of the Acts of St Thomas.