SV: two study projects
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1209
Date: 2005-08-09
There is also an excellent Hindi translation of Baalaavataara by Swami
Dwarikadas Shastri, Baudha Bharati, Varanasi 1975.
Ole Pind
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> All the texts
> are in Pali and there are no available translations in English (at
> least for me) except for the introductory verses and the first few
> suttas of Kacc.
The Kacc.-vyakarana itself has been translated --and more than once. The
most readily available translation is probably Senart's rather ancient
French rendering; it may here be pointed out that Senart often offers a kind
of summary (or "epitome") rather than a word-for-word translation. As I
have mentioned repeatedly on this list, Kacc. was fully translated into
English by Vidybhusana in Maha Bodhi Society edition that could barely be
described as "extant" (i.e., good luck finding a copy).
The value of a word-for-word translation of Kacc. is limited; the
commentarial and explanatory literature on Kacc. is more suited to "direct"
translation. Jim's suggestion that several of these (related) text be
translated "in tandem" is very ambitious, and if it produced a working
translation of any or all of this grammatical literature, it would be a very
useful contribution to struggling students such as myself.
I also mentioned on this list that I discovered a rather obscure edition of
the Balavataro with full English translation and tables; it may be that some
of the other texts mentioned have similarly obscure editions from pre-Junta
Burma.
E.M.
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