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Tamil printing stopped after 1612, as the numerous writings of Nobili and Manoel Martin lay unpublished in 1649 and 1660. There were some attempts to revive printing, but they proved short-lived. For instance, there is a reference to a Latin–Tamil grammar by Father Beschi, a Sanskrit scholar, having been printed at Ziegenbalg’s press.
He also printed Flos Sanctorum in Tamil (1586). [4] This book contains the lives of Saints. By his efforts, Tamil became the first non-European language to be printed on a printing press. [2] [8] [9] Hence, he is sometimes referred to as Father of the Tamil press [10] Henriques is the first known European Tamil scholar. [2]
Bustamante was among the two most important Europeans to play a role in the history of printing in India, along with his colleague João Gonçalves, another Spaniard by birth, who is credited with casting and preparing the first printing types of an Indian script – Tamil – in Goa in 1577, with the assistance of the convert Pero Luis, which ...
Thambiran Vanakkam (also known as Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul in Portuguese; Tamil: தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated by Henrique Henriques and published on 20 October 1578 at Quilon, Venad. [1] It is the first printed work in an Indian language and script. [2]
In 1711, he was able to convince the University of Halle at Halle to start scholarly study into the Tamil language. In 1715, he translated the Bible into Tamil and helped set up India's first printing press at Tranquebar, with Tamil being the first Indian language to be printed. Ziegenbalg championed the cause of women's education and abolition ...
He set up the first Tamil press and got books printed in Tamil script. The first book printed in Tamil script was "Thambiran Vanakkam" (தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) (1578), a 16-page translation of the Portuguese "Doctrina Christam". Thereby, Tamil became the first non-European language to be printed on a printing press ...
A printing press arrived around 1712–1713 and the Tranquebar Press produced its first publications. On Ziegenbalg's insistence, the first Tamil publication from the press reached the mass in 1713, followed by the New Testament in 1714. [3]
Mudaliar taught Tamil in Madurai Tamil Sangam. He also established a printing press exclusively for the purpose of printing Tamil materials. [1] In 1850, Mudaliar published the entire Kural text with commentaries for the first time in history.