Translations into Sanskrit

[franco at RZ.UNI-LEIPZIG.DE]

There is Sanskrit translation of the Bible, printed in the grantha  
script, from 1863. Perhaps there are earlier ones.
If I remember correctly, Sylvain Levi discusses some evidence for the  
translation of the Alexander Legend into Sanskrit in the early  
centuries CE.
Best wishes,
EF


Quoting Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK>:

>
> Samrāḍ Jagannātha translated Euclid into Sanskrit at the court of  
> Jayasiṃha (1688-1743).  Ed by Kamalāśaṅkara Prāṇaśaṅkara Trivedī,  
> Bombay: Nirṇasasāgara Press, 1901.  It was the Nasir ad-Din  
> al-Tusi's Arabic tr. of Euclid that was translated, not the original  
> Greek.
>
> Michael Dodson has written a good article on Ballantyne's 19th  
> century efforts in Benares to present European science of the time  
> in Sanskrit treatises.  He and his pandits produced treatises for  
> example on chemistry, the moon, and other topics.  See
> 	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=100309
>
> Lancelot Wilkinson and his pandit Bapu Deva Sastri too worked on  
> translating Arabic and European astronomical treatises into  
> Sanskrit.  See Minikowski's paper in Michaels' book The Pandit  
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=0TtuAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1) and other  
> papers.
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Dr Dominik Wujastyk
>
>
>
>
> 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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