Telepta (or Telia), Council of, propcrlv Zella (q.v.).
Telesphorus, pope, is said to have been of (Grecian family, and to have occupied tlie see of Rome from A.D. 128 to 139. Our knowledge of him is altogether legend- ary. An interpolated passage in the Chronicon of Eu- sebius and a discourse smuggled into the works of Am- brose make the statement that Telesphorus had made the regidations of fasting more strict, that he had ex- tended the fast before Easter to cover seven weeks, and that he directed three masses to be said and the Gloria in Excekis to be sung in the night before Christmas. He is reputed to have energetically contended against the heretical teachings of jMarcion and Valentine, and to have died a martyr's death. See Ilerzog, lieal-En- cyUiip. s. V. ; comp. Hoefer, Nonv. Biog. Generate, s. v.
Teletarches (TiXiTdpxt]^), a Greek term for a consecrator.
Teletarchikos (TtXeTapxiKog), a Greek term sig- nifying consecrating.
Telete, a term in the Latin Church for the holy eucharist. See Tki.eioi.
Tel-hare'sha (Neh. vii, 61). See Tel-harsa, Tel-har'sa (Heb. [for Chald.] Tel-charshu' , -bpl X'i'in, hill of the artificer [Gesenius, of the wood ; Filrst, of the Magus'\ ; Sept. i)tXapi]rta v. r. BiXapaa; Vulg. Thelharsa), one of the Babylonian towns, or vil- lages, from which some Jews, who " could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel," returned to Judaea with Zerubbabel (Ezra ii,
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59; Neh. vii, 61 [A. V. "Tel-haresha]). It probably was in the low countrj' near the sea. in the neighbor- hood of Tel-melah and Cherub, places which are asso- ciated with it. Herzfeld's conjecture {Gesc/i. Isr. i, 452) that the name is connected with the river llaran, in Susiana (Ammian. Marc, xxiii, p. 325, Bip.) is very pre- carious.
Telinga (or Teloogoo) Version. The Telinsa language is spoken within tweuty-tliree miles of Jla- dras, antl prevails for about live hundred miles along the coast, from the vicinity of rulicat to the borders of Orissa. The superficial extent of the entire region in which this language is predominant has been estimated at 118,010 square miles. The natives are Hindus and number about 10,000,000. The Telinga language is also diffused to a greater or less extent through various countries of Southern India, in which the Tamul and Canarese are the proper vernacular languages. Tliis diffusion in part arises from the early conquests, dating from the 14th century, achieved by the people of Telin- ga in the South. Like the Romans, they endeavored to secure their conquests and to keep the natives in subjection by the establishment of military colonies; and the Telinga language is still spoken by the descend- ants of the Telinga families who were deputed by the kings of Vidianagara to found these colonies. The roaming tendencies of the Telinga people also serve to account, in part, for the diffusion of the language. On this subject the missionaries have remarked that " in intelligence, migratory habits, secular prosperity, and infrequency of return to their native land this people are in relation to other parts of ludia what the Scotch are in relation to Eugland and the world." Benjamin Scliultze, the laborious Danish missionary, was the first who engaged in a Telinga version of the Bible. He commenced his translation in 1726, immediately after his completion of the Tamul version (q. v.). He trans- lated from the Greek and Hebrew texts, and finished the Telinga version of the New Test, in 1727, and of the Old Test, in 1732, the whole bearing the title Bi- blia Teliif/ica ex Hebraico et Grwco Textn, adhibi.tis multis alils Versionibus, in Liiu/uarn Teluffictim Tnins- lata a Benjamino Schultzio Missionario ad Indos Ori- entales A o, 1732. From some cause hitherto unex- plained, this work was never printed; and iMarsch, in the Bibliotheca Sacra, ii, 202, saj^s : " Quo vero tempore iu iniblicum prodituri sint Biblia Telugice impressa, di- vinai providentiiB reservatum manebit." Sohultzedied iu 1760 at Halle, and it has been thought that his Te- linga MSS. may still be preserved in that city. In 1805 the Serampore missionaries commenced another version of the Scriptures in this language, and in 1809 they had translated the whole of the New Test, and part of the Old. Owing to various causes of delay, the New Test, was not printed till 1818, and iu 1820 the Pentateuch was published.
While the Serampore version was in progress, the Ilev. Augustus Desgranges, of the London Missionary Societ}', had commenced another version and carried it on to the close of the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Mr. Desgranges, who had beeu stationed at Vizagapa- tam since 1805, had the assistance of the Rev. George Cran, also stationed there, and of Anunderayer, a Telin- ga Brahmin of high caste who had been converted to Christianity. In 1808 jMr. Cran died, and, two years later, Mr. Desgranges. On examination it was found that the first three gospels were the only portions of the translation that were in a state of readiness for the press. Of these one thousand copies were printed at Serampore in 1812, under the care of Anunderayer.
In the meantime another version of the Telinga New Test, had been commenced. Rev. Messrs. Pritchett and Lee, agents of the London Missionary Society, arrived at Vizagapatam a short time prior to the decease of Mr. Desgranges. Mr. Lee undertook a translation of the book of (ienesis, but the preparation of the version afterwards devolved almost exclusively on Mr. Prit- X.-Q