History of Bengali Language and Literature c11.26

c11.26

Wilkins. Soon after a printing press constructed of wood was advertised for sale and Dr. Carey immediately purchased it for £40. Panchanana was once more found out and his services engaged by the Çri Rāmapur Mission. Here Panchanana completed a fount of 700 separate punches for Devanāgri letters and their compounds. Panchanana was now an old man, so his worthy colleague Manohara, already mentioned, was called in to assist him and "was subsequently employed for forty years at the Çri Rāmapur press and to his exertions and instruction, Bengal is indebted for the various beautiful founts of the Bengali, Nāgri, Persian, Arabic and other characters which have been gradually introduced into the different printing establishments."*