The first Marathi translation was made by Vaidyanath Sarma under the supervision of the Serampore missionaries and William Carey at Fort William College. [1] [2] [3] However Carey's translation was found lacking, [4] and was revised by two American missionaries, Gordon Hall and Samuel Newell in 1826, with a subsequent edition in 1830. [5] [6] Further, David Oliver Allen "superintended a translation of the Scriptures into the Mahratta language" while in charge of the Bombay printshop 1844−53. [7]
The first colloquial version was made by Pandita Ramabai in language easy for Pune women to understand. [8] [9] [10]
Later translators of the Bible include Bapuji Appaji, B. N. Athavle and Ratnakar Hari Kelkar.
In collaboration with Church centric bible translation, Free Bibles India has published a Marathi translation online.
In 2016, the New Testament of New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses in Marathi. [11] It was published online (also offline in PDF format) with mobile versions released through JW Library application in App stores.