How did the printing began in india?

1.	How did the printing began in india?
Answer» In Buddhism, great merit is thought to accrue from copying and preserving texts. The 4th-century master listed the copying of scripture as the first of ten essential religious practices. The importance of perpetuating texts is set out with special force in the\xa0longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, which urges the devout not only to hear, learn, remember and study the text but to obtain a good copy and to preserve it. This "cult of the book" led to techniques for reproducing texts in great numbers, especially the short prayers or charms known as\xa0dhāraṇīs. Stamps were carved for printing these prayers on clay tablets from at least the 7th century, the date of the oldest surviving examples. Especially popular was the\xa0Pratītyasamutpāda Gāthā, a short verse text summing up\xa0Nāgārjuna\'s philosophy of causal genesis or dependent origination. Nagarjuna lived in the early centuries of the current era[clarification needed]\xa0and the Buddhist Creed, as the\xa0Gāthā\xa0is frequently called, was printed on clay tablets in huge numbers from the 6th century. This tradition was transmitted to China and Tibet with Buddhism. Printing text from woodblocks does not, however, seem to have been developed in India. I ask how did printing began,not in which year and by whom.please read question carefully. Printing in india was began by Portuguese missionary in 16th century AD\xa0

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