Re: [INDOLOGY] less well-known Gītagovinda translations

[Jesse Knutson]

Wow this is so fascinating. Thanks so much to you, Csaba, and Judit Torzok
for sharing this information with us.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Balogh Dániel via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> To expand on Csaba's message below: the Hungarian translation is online at
> https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/dzsajadeva.html
>
> According to an anecdote, Indian listeners could recognise the Gītagovinda
> when they heard parts of this recited in Hungarian. It is indeed a
> brilliant work of translation that matches the original metres with an
> accuracy I'd estimate over 95%, and more with some licence. It also
> reproduces almost all of the rhyme/anuprāsa in the songs. That said, the
> transcreation is far from accurate content-wise, and Vekerdi remained at
> odds with Weöres ever after.
>
> On 2017. 04. 03. 8:20, Csaba Dezso via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> Dear Jesse,
>
> Do Ugric languages count? There is a brilliant metrical Hungarian
> translation, a collaborative effort of the Sanskritist József Vekerdi, who
> made a prose translation from the Sanskrit and of the poet Sándor Weöres
> who versified it.
>
> Dzsajadéva, *Gíta Govinda. Pásztorének. *Magvető, Budapest, 1982.
>
> Best,
> Csaba
>
>
>
> 2017. ápr. 2. dátummal, 22:58 időpontban Jesse Knutson via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> írta:
>
> Can anyone tell me if the 12th/13th century Sanskrit poem Gītagovinda has
> been translated into any Slavic or east Asian languages? or any other
> languages that people might be less commonly aware of? Latin, French,
> Italian, Spanish, German, English, etc. accounted for. Best, भवदीयः,J --
> Jesse Ross Knutson PhD
> Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, Department of Indo-Pacific
> Languages and Literatures
> University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
> 461 Spalding
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Jesse Ross Knutson PhD
Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, Department of Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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