Tirukkural translations into Odia
By 2000, there were at least five translations of the Tirukkural in Odia, all published after the 1970s.
History of translations
The first translation of the Kural text in Odia appeared in 1978 by Chittaranjan Das. The list of Kural translations in Odia appears in the following table.
| No. | Year | Translator | Title | Location and Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1978 | Chittaranjan Das | Kural [Oriya] | Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | Appeared in 154 pages. |
| 2 | 1985 | Kshirod Dash | Tirukkuralu | Sambalpur | A translations in verse |
| 3 | 1992 | Nityanada Acharya | Tirukkural: Book of Sacred Couplets | Balangir, Orissa: Agragami Karyalaya | Translated only the first two parts (Virtue and Wealth) |
| 4 | 1994 | Gananath Das | Cuttack: Vidyapuri Publishers | Complete translation in verse. Based on the Hindi translation of Tirukkural by M. G. Venkatakrishnan | |
| 5 | 1996 | Biswanath Misra | Tirukkural | Bhubaneswar |
G. N. Das's translation is based on the Hindi translation of the Tirukkural by M. G. Venkatakrishnan, and is also influenced by the English translations by P. S. Sundaram and Drew–Lazarus and Sanskrit translation by S. N. Srirama Desikan.[1] Das retired from his IAS career in 1972, after which he took to studying saintly literatures, especially that of Kabir.[2]
See also
Notes
- ^ Sundararajan, S. (1997). Foreword. In: Thirukkural in Oriya (G. N. Das, Trans.) (in Odia). Cuttack: Vidyapuri. pp. vii.
- ^ "Thirukkural in Oriya". OOCities. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
Published Translations
- G. N. Das. (1997). Thirukkural in Oriya (Foreword by S. Sundararajan). Cuttack: Vidyapuri.
