![]() ![]() ![]() This was even before the first printing machine arrived Goa, India in 1556. The Tamil Bible, 'Cardila', was printed in 1554 and made Tamil the first language into print for any Indian language. Their spiritual, cultural and literary excellency brought out the first Tamil book to modern print media. Paravas converted to Christianity in the mid 16th century. Seventy years after Fabricius, at the invitation of Peter Percival a Saiva scholar, Arumuka Navalar, produced a "tentative" translation, which came to be known as the "Navalar version," and was largely rejected by Tamil Protestants. Johann Philipp Fabricius, a German, revised Ziegenbalg's and others' work to produce the standard Tamil version. The history of Bible translations into the Tamil language commences with the arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg at Tranquebar in 1706.
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