An Appreciation of Radhakrishnan's Translation of "The Bhagvadgita"

Having been born an Adi Dravida in Madras, I was not privileged to learn Sanskrit. At school and college, dazzled by the British Raj, I abandoned my mother-tongue, Telugu, and opted for English as my language of communication. Perforce, I had to content myself with trans- lations of the Bhagvadgita and books on this Sanskrit

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आदि द्रविड़ जगमोहन, जिन्होंने गीता केवल अनुवादों में पढ़ी, चालीस वर्षों में पढ़े बीसियों अनुवादों के सामने राधाकृष्णन के 1948 के अनुवाद को रखते हैं, एडविन आर्नल्ड से लेकर बर्नूफ और लासेन तक, और उसकी भूमिका, सरल अनुवाद तथा टिप्पणियों की प्रशंसा करते हैं। Jag Mohan, an Adi Dravida from Madras who came to the Gita only in English, weighs Radhakrishnan's 1948 translation against the score of versions he has read in forty years, from Edwin Arnold's Song Celestial back to Burnouf and Lassen, praising its essay, its plain rendering and its notes.

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