Translations from Tamil into Sanskrit (Re: Translations into Sanskrit

[Whitney Cox]

I've been told that the Tamil Periyapuraa.nam of Ceekki_laar (ca. 1140
CE) was translated into Sanskrit as the "Sivabhaktavilaasa, attributed
to the sage Upamanyu and assigned a locus of attribution in the
Skandapuraa.na.  A brief look in some library catalogues (SOAS,
Chicago, BL) didn't turn up any references to this text, but there is
a Telugu translation (as the "Srii"sivebhaktavilaasamu, the details
available at the URL pasted below).

http://libcat.uchicago.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12374I4M28801.170989&profile=ucpublic&uri=full=3100001~!6161913~!8&ri=5&aspect=subtab13&menu=search&source=~!horizon

Also, R. Vijayalakshmy established some years ago that the Tamil
Ciivakacintaama.ni served as the basis of a Sanskrit version of the
story of the Jaina kaamadeva Jiivandhara and not the other way around,
as had previously been thought.  The details of this Sanskrit text
aren't coming to me at the moment; see her 1981 publication A Study of
the Ciivakacintaama.ni (Ahmedabad: L.D. Institute of Indology).

Whitney Cox


2009/3/19 Jean-Luc Chevillard <jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr>:
> If you are interested in translations from Tamil into Sanskrit,
> you can have a look at the following book:
>
> /Un texte tamoul de dévotion vishnouite: le Tiruppāvai d'Āṇṭāḷ/, Jean
> FILLIOZAT, Institut Français d'Indology, Publication N°45, 1972
>
> It contains:
>
> -- an introduction [pp. vii-xxiii]
>
> -- a bibliography [pp. xxiv-xxvii]
>
> -- the (original Tamil) text of the /Tiruppāvai/, along with a French
> translation [pp. 2-31]
>
> -- notes [pp. 33-56]
>
> -- the TIRUPPĀVAI SAṂSKṚTĀNUVYĀKHYĀNAM (by Śrīraṅgarāmānujasvāmi) [pp.
> 57-67]
>
> -- a French translation ("Commentaire perpétuel sanskrit par
> Śrīraṅgarāmānujasvāmi [pp.69-79]
>
> -- the ŚRĪVRATAṂ (TIRUPPĀVAI)
>
> -- a French translation (ŚRĪVRATA, LE VOEU DE FORTUNE) [pp. 87-92]
>
> -- an INDEX [pp. 93-116]
>
> In the introduction (p. xxii), Jean Filliozat writes:
> "Le /Tiruppāvai/ a été aussi trois fois au moins traduit en sanskrit. ..."
>
> He then gives details concerning the first 2 translations, included in the
> book, and the third one, not included, which exists as a manuscript in the
> EFEO library in Pondicherry (n° EFEO 64).
>
> I should add that the /Tiruppāvai/ is dated by Kamil Zvelebil in the 8th
> century. (/Lexicon of Tamil Literature/, Brill, 1995, p. 685)
>
> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard
> (CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot Paris 7)
>
>
>
> Sven Sellmer a écrit :
>>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> lately I was asked about early translations into Sanskrit and noticed that
>> this is quite an interesting question I know little about. Is anybody aware
>> of articles or books on this topic? In particular, I would be curious to
>> learn about the earliest translations into Sanskrit of texts originally
>> composed in languages others than Middle Indo-Aryan ones (as only these I
>> would consider translations in the full sense).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Sven Sellmer
>>
>> ************************************
>> Dr. Sven Sellmer
>> Adam Mickiewicz University
>> Institute of Oriental Studies
>> South Asia Unit
>> ul. 28 czerwca 1956 r. nr 198
>> 61-485 Poznań
>> POLAND
>> sven at amu.edu.pl
>>
>



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Dr. Whitney Cox
Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG