Translations into Sanskrit

[Eugen Ciurtin]

Neriosangh, a Gujarati Parsi *dastur*, translated the Avestan Yasna into
Sanskrit
probably in the 15th c. This translation (discovered by Anquetil Dupperon
during his stay in India) was of crucial help for Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852)
in his comparative studies of the Avesta, mainly in *Commentaire sur le
Yaçna*, Paris, 1833ff., continued in 1861 by Friedrich Spiegel
in*Neriosengh’s Sanskrit-Übersetzung des Yaçna
*.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ULgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193&dq=neriosengh+sanskrit&lr=&ei=1YvCSfH1K5HaMbqWvOwN&hl=ro

There are other early modern Sanskrit translations of Avestic or Pahlavi
Zoroastrian works (e.g. parts of the *Vendidad*, *Arda Viraz*, etc.).



With best wishes,

Eugen Ciurtin

2009/3/19 donovevs at libero.it <donovevs at libero.it>

> The Raajavyavahaarakoza is a lexicon of Sanskrit equivalents to (mostly)
> Persian administrative terms; it was prepared on Shivaji’s behalf by
> Raghunaatha (ca. 1676).
>
> Regards,
>
> Svevo D’Onofrio
>
> Department of Linguistic
> and Oriental Studies
> University of Bologna (Italy)
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Sven
> Sellmer wrote:
>
> 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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