Translations into Sanskrit

[Gérard Huet]

Pr Minkowski, in his Inaugural Lecture for the Boden Professorship at  
Oxford,
tells about the Sulaimaccaitra, the Life of Sulaymaan (King Solomon).
This Sanskrit text was commissioned by prince Laa.dkaan of the
Lodi ruling family in Oudh around 1500. Its first 3 chapters deal with  
King' David's life.
This is not a direct translation of biblical stories,
and it borrows from Arabic versions, but parts of David's story are  
not known from arabic sources.
GH


Le 19 mars 09 à 22:25, franco at RZ.UNI-LEIPZIG.DE a écrit :

> 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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