English scholarly translations of Sanskrit texts

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I found Thibaut's old translation of Sankara's Brahmasutrabhasya clear,

accurate, and preserving something of the style (isn't it traditionally

called spastodara, "clear and lofty"?) of the original.

 

Allen

 

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INDOLOGY, "Harry Spier" <harryspier@H...> wrote:

>What english translations of sanskrit works are considered

>to be the best models of what a scholarly translation of a

>sanskrit work should be.

 

Indira Peterson (Columbia U.,) told that

Hank Heifetz's translation of Kumarasambhavam

is very good. Heifetz, Origin of the young god:

Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam. U. of California press, 1985.

 

His PhD thesis was about issues in translating from

Indian classical texts. Along with George Hart,

he translated an entire classical sangam text

which won awards. "The four hundred songs of war and wisdom:

an anthology of poems from classical Tamil : the Pu_ran¯a_n¯u_ru"

/ translated and edited by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz.

Columbia University Press, c1999.

 

N. Ganesan