Samkshepa Vedartham

Samkshepa Vedartham is basically a catechism book written in the question-answer format.

It was authored by Clemente Peani (1731–1782), also known as Clemens Peanius, who was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples who reached Kerala in 1757 and spent several years there as a Christian missionary.

[3] The book was printed in the year 1772 in Rome using movable types.

[1] Peani is also the author of another book titled "Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum" printed in Rome in 1772 dealing with the Malayalam alphabet.

The contents of Samkshepa Vedartham has been summarized thus: A second edition of the Samkshepa Vedartham has been published jointly by D. C. Books, Kottayam and Carmel Publishing Centre, Thiruvananthapuram in 1980 with an introduction by Chummar Choondal and a commentary by Mathew Ulakanthara.