
'Crepar Xaxtrer Orth, Bhed' (The Meaning of the Gospel) is one of the earliest prose works in the Bengali language and the very first printed Bengali book. It was composed by the Portuguese priest Manoel da Assumpção. The book was written in 1734 at Nagori in the Bhawal Pargana of Gazipur district and was printed in Lisbon in 1743.
This first printed book of Bengali literature was written in the Dhakaiya dialect. At that time, Kolkata-centric standard Bengali had not yet been universally established.