Question

English- Malayalam and Malayalam- English dictionaries were published by __________ and __________.
A) Benjamin Beyli and Dr Herman Gundert
B) Benjamin Beyli and Alexander Valignano
C) Alexander Valignano and Dr Herman Gundert
D) Richard Kerr and Claudius Buchanan

Answer 1

Hint: We have to remember that apart from the initial notations developed on copper and stone, he duplicated Malayalam to the RamaCharitam, a poem predating the Sanskrit alphabet. Several terms in this dictionary are not in use these days. But this is a valuable fortune for those who research the advancement of Malayalam.

Complete answer:
We have to know that Dr Hermann Gundert was a German advocate, philosopher and linguist. He assembled a Malayalam grammar publication, Malayala Bhasha Vyakaranam 1859, in which he formulated and constricted the grammar articulated by the Malayalis. Nowadays, a Malayalam-English dictionary 1872, and agreed to work on Bible interpretations into Malayalam. He worked especially at Thalassery on the Malabar coast in Kerala, India.
Gundert contemplated Malayalam to have branched out from Proto-Tamil–Malayalam, or Proto-Dravidian. In Kerala, he took an intense interest in the regional civilization and the Malayalam dialect, striving for a standardized grammar of the language. This was one of the pre-eminent non-Sanskrit-based outlook to Indic grammar.We have to remember that Benjamin Bailey was a missionary in Kerala. He was appointed in 1815 and progressed to Kerala in 1816 where he began a mission station in Kottayam, and in 1821 He inaugurated a Malayalam printing press. He interpreted the Bible into Malayalam,in 1846 printed the first English-Malayalam glossary, and in 1849 publicized the first Malayalam-English dictionary.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Note:We must remember that the articles cherished by Gundert, who was also an intellectual attributed with the first Malayalam-English dictionary, encompassed nearly 80 manuscripts and 150 printed endeavours. Some of the accessible palm leaf manuscripts run into 42,000 pages. He retreated to Germany in 1859 where he took ten additional years to finalize the dictionary. Some of the extraordinary editions in the Malayalam language would have been misplaced if Herman Gundert, the German missionary, had not taken the pain to transfer them to his hometown.