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- Robert Goldman sings from the Ramayana Published on 17 Nov 2016
- Famous Ramayana epic now in modern English Published on 17 Nov 2016
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Robert P. Goldman | |
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| Born | 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, translator |
| Title | William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit |
| Spouse | Sally Goldman (née Sutherland) [1] |
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| Education | Ph.D., A.B. |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, Columbia College |
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| Discipline | Sanskrit scholar |
| Institutions | University of California,Berkeley |
| Website | http://sseas.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/robert-p-goldman |
Robert Philip Goldman (born 1942) [2] is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California,Berkeley, [3] [4] [5] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since April 1996. [6] [7]
Goldman was born in 1942. He went to Columbia College and obtained an A.B. degree in 1964. He also received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. [7] Goldman is notable for his English translation of the Rāmāyaṇa published by Princeton University Press [1] in 7 volumes between 1990 and 2019. His co-translators on the work included Sheldon I. Pollock, [8] Rosalind Lefeber, [9] Barend A. van Nooten, [10] and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. [10] Goldman received the Sanskrit Award for 2017 by the Indian Council on Cultural Relations (ICCR). [1]
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