The Adventures Of The Gooroo Paramartana Tale In The Tamul Language [Hardcover]

Name : The Adventures Of The Gooroo Paramartana Tale In The Tamul Language [Hardcover]

Author : Benjamin Babington

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121231008

Language : English

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2020

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About the Book : - The main purpose of this work is to offer help in the study of the Tamil Language. For this purpose a Tamil tale has been selected of which a translation, vocabulary and analysis have been added. The tale of Guru Parmaratan is one of the lighter tales which illustrate a comical side of the priesthood. About the Author: - Benjamin Babington, physician and linguist. He entered the navy as a midshipman, and served at Walcheren and Copenhagen, but left the service early, and, having obtained a nomination for the Indian civil service, studied at Haileybury College, and was appointed to the Madras presidency. He possessed a remarkable faculty for languages, and soon became distinguished as an oriental scholar. He translated into English the Tamul-Latin Grammar of C. J. Beschius, and published other translations. Dr Babington was a man of remarkable and very versatile intellectual power. He was proficient in several sciences, and in all of them exact and thorough. Soon after his appointment at Guy's Hospital he gave much attention to the subject of animal chemistry, and assisted Sir Astley Cooper, Dr Bright, and others of his colleagues by making analyses of morbid products. He also wrote in the 'Medico-Chirurgical Transactions' two memoirs on the blood, in one of which he described the fat constantly present in the serum; in another he employed for the first time an

Country of Origin : India