Chapter COWRY to CRANGANORE of C by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

left of it. In Baldaeus (Malabar und Coromandel, p. 109, Germ. ed.) there are several good views of Cranganore as it stood in the 17th century. [See SHINKALI.]

c. 774. A.D.—“We have given as eternal possession to Iravi Corttan, the lord of the town, the brokerage and due customs…namely within the river-mouth of Codangalur.”—Copper Charter, see Madr. Journ. xiii. And for the date of the inscription, Burnell, in Ind. Antiq. iii. 315.

(Before 1500, see as in above quotation, p. 334.).—“I Erveh Barmen…sitting this day in Canganúr.…”(Madras Journal, xiii. pt. ii. p. 12). This is from an old Hebrew translation of the 8th century copper-grant to the Jews, in which the Tamil has “The king…Sri Bhaskara Ravi Varman…on the day when he was pleased to sit in Muyiri-kódu…”—thus identifying Muyiri or Muziris with Cranganore, an identification afterwards verified by tradition ascertained on the spot by Dr. Burnell.

1498.—“Quorongoliz belongs to the Christians, and the king is a Christian; it is 3 days distant from Calecut by sea with fair wind; this king could muster 4,000 fighting men; here is much pepper.…”—Roteiro de Vasco da Gama, 108.

1503.—“Nostra autem regio in qua Christiani commorantur Malabar appellatur, habetque xx circiter urbes, quarum tres celebres sunt et firmæ, Carongoly, Palor, et Colom, et aliæ illis proximæ sunt.”—Letter of Nestorian Bishops on mission to India, in Assemani, iii. 594.

1516.—“…a place called Crongolor, belonging to the King of Calicut…there live in it Gentiles, Moors, Indians, and Jews, and Christians of the doctrine of St. Thomas.”—Barbosa, 154.

c. 1535.—“Crancanor fu antichamente honorata, e buon porto, tien molte genti…la città e grande, ed honorata con grã traffico, auãti che si facesse Cochin, cõ la venuta di Portoghesi, nobile.”—Sommario de’ Regni, &c. Ramusio, i. f. 332v

1554.—“Item…paid for the maintenance of the boys in the College, which is kept in Cranguanor, by charter of the King our Lord, annually 100 000 reis.…”—S. Botelho, Tombo, &c., 27.

c. 1570.—“…prior to the introduction of Islamism into this country, a party of Jews and Christians had found their way to a city of Malabar called Cadungaloor.”—Tohfat-ul-Mujahideen, 47.

1572.—

“A hum Cochin, e a outro Cananor,
A qual Chale, a qual a ilha da pimenta,
A qual Coulão, a qual dá Cranganor,
E os mais, a quem o mais serve e contenta.…”

Camões, vii. 35.

1614.—“The Great Samorine’s Deputy came aboord…and…earnestly persuaded vs to stay a day or two, till he might send to the Samorine, then at Crangelor, besieging a Castle of the Portugals.”—Peyton, in Purchas, i. 531.

c. 1806.—“In like manner the Jews of Kranghir (Cranganore), observing the weakness of the Sámuri…made a great many Mahomedans drink the cup of martyrdom.…”—Muhabbat Khán (writing of events in 16th century), in Elliot, viii. 388.

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