Viramamunivar

Pseudonym of Father Constanzio Beschi
(1680–1747), an Italian Jesuit who lived
in Tamil Nadu for thirty-six years. Like
many of the other early Jesuits, Beschi
learned the local language and adopted
the local way of life. As part of his missionary work, he translated parts of the
Old and New Testament into literary
Tamil, and his facility with the language
and its poetic conventions make this
work a significant milestone in later
Tamil literature.