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The first Malayalam translation of the Kural text, and the very first translation of the Kural text into any language, appeared in 1595. [2] Written by an unknown author, it was titled Tirukkural Bhasha and was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. [3]
He was the one who introduced the punctuation marks – full stop, comma, semicolon, colon, and question mark – into the Malayalam language. Malayalam-English Dictionary. He returned to Germany in 1859. There he took ten more years to complete the dictionary. (1872) [5] A number of words in this dictionary are not in use these days. But this ...
The venue to the translation of Bible into unified and standardized Malayalam vernacular was at Cottayam College" or the "Syrian Seminary" now called as "Old Seminary" or "Orthodox Theological Seminary", Chungom, Kottayam. The College was also privileged to offer the venue of the composition of Malayalam-English, English-Malayalam dictionaries.
DC Books is the publisher of several translation dictionaries used by professionals and South Asian Linguists, [8] [9] such as their: "English-English-Malayalam dictionary" by T. Ramalingam Pillai (ISBN 81-7130-302-1) Malayalam English Dictionary by M. Varier, et al.
It was he who established the first printing press (the Kottayam CMS press) and started printing Malayalam in Kerala. He was the first lexicographer in the language. Besides this, he was a well versed author and translator. [3] He compiled a dictionary of the Malayalam language. [4] Benjamin Bailey was also an architect in Gothic style.
Other contributions include Nadatrayam (Poetry Collection), Bharata Brihad Tarika (Translation), Bharathiya Samskarathinu Jaina Mathathinte Sambhavana (Contribution of Jain Religion to Indian Culture) (Study) and a Hindi-English-Malayalam Trilingual Dictionary. [4] The ghazal he composed in 1958 was the first in that field in Malayalam. [2]
His son P. Damodara Pillai later compiled a concise version. Padmanabha Pillai also prepared a pocket dictionary in 1906. Padmanabha Pillai wrote around sixty books in his lifetime. He ran the magazine Bhashavilasam for a time and left two dictionaries - Sahityabharanam and an English-Malayalam dictionary - incomplete at the time of his death.
The first translation of the Kural text appeared in Malayalam in 1595 CE under the title Tirukkural Bhasha by an unknown author. It was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. [2]