Translations into Sanskrit

[victor davella]

Prof. Minkowski's inaugural address can be found on his website here:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball2185/

It's quite a good read.

Best,
Victor

PhD Candidate
MEALAC
Columbia University

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Gérard Huet <Gerard.Huet at inria.fr> wrote:

> 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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