162 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (April, 1913. 
A second edition appeared also at Rachol in 1649, and a 
third was printed ‘‘in St. Paul’s College,’’ Goa, in 1654. 
It appears to have been written first in Portuguese and 
then translated into Konkani. In the second and third editions 
it bears the title of ‘‘ Purana It is a poem of 11,018 stanzas 
of four verses each concerning By history from the crea- 
have been first published in 1616 in geen We read in /ettere 
Annue del Giappone, China, Goa, et Ethio .. anni 1615, 1616, 
1617, 1618, 1619 .... Napoli, Lazar 0, Scorrigio re pe. AXI, pp. 112, 
113: * (Fr. e ; 
n his par 
as satisfaction on the part of his superiors. e made himself thoroughly 
master of the Canarine [Konkani] tongue, and reduced it to grammatical 
seg with such profit to ours that, whereas at edi no one was able to 
ar the confessions of those p eople, he saw his Grammar produce in hi 
i 
tion of his superiors, he began printing in that sprit a volume of verse on | 
the chief o— es of the faith, ‘the creation o the world, the fall of our 
first parents Sigiette me of the chief prophecies concerning the advent of 
i is ork is so aateoatie that not only do the Christians derive 
language a Christian Saagpibes LCavecht sm]. Itw ee printed when 
the Age se was na otled a better life bot the fruit, whic is bound to 
ve 
with other Catholic Puranas, e.g.: that of . Francisco. Vaz de ui- 
maraes, panne to that of Stephens, which was big ie: da isbon in 1659 
in Portuguese characters, at Bombay in 1845, and perk poets in 1879. 
ishe = 
n 
by J. A. ocr Cf. E. M. Riviire, S.J., Correct. et = a la Biol. 
dela C. de J., IL (Toulouse, 1912), col. 289, a vi ery interest- 
ing articles appeared | in that connection in the  aet yr iallee 0 St. 
Aloysius Colleg 
Biographical and other notices on the “ first Wf ORE in India ’’ 
~ hes _ n Ribadeneira, ny Backer, es Parsons, More, H 
a Cu 
I + Bi icc. p j 
nos sec. XVI, XVII, XVIII, pp. 29-43, wae e os estrang., 
EL P.,:Voli-k: oe 385 ;—J. DAHLMANN, 8.J., Die aa a de und die 
Missionen, Op. cit ;—Mangalore Magazine, first three vols. passim ;—Dr. 
G. A.  Garmnson, Eien Survey of India, VII, p. 167.] 
