Paravas converted to Christianity in the mid 16th century. Seventy years after Fabricius, at the invitation of Peter Percival a Saiva scholar, Arumuka Navalar, produced a "tentative" translation, which came to be known as the "Navalar version," and was largely rejected by Tamil Protestants. Johann Philipp Fabricius, a German, revised Ziegenbalg's and others' work to produce the standard Tamil version. The history of Bible translations into the Tamil language commences with the arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg at Tranquebar in 1706.
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