Tirukkural translations into Odia

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By 2017, there were at least six translations of the Tirukkural in Odia, all published after the 1970s.

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History of translations

The first translation of the Kural text in Odia appeared in 1978 by Chittaranjan Das, which was published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Bhubaneswar. [1] [2] The list of Kural translations in Odia appears in the following table. [3]

No.YearTranslatorTitleLocation and PublisherNotes
11978 Chittaranjan Das [2] [3] Kural [Oriya] Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Vidya BhavanAppeared in 154 pages.
21985Kshirod Dash [2] [3] Tirukkuralu Sambalpur A translations in verse
31992Nityanada Acharya [2] [3] Tirukkural: Book of Sacred Couplets Balangir, Orissa: Agragami KaryalayaTranslated only the first two parts (Virtue and Wealth)
41994 Gananath Das [2] [3] Cuttack: Vidyapuri PublishersComplete translation in verse. Based on the Hindi translation of Tirukkural by M. G. Venkatakrishnan
51996Biswanath Misra [2] [3] Tirukkural Bhubaneswar
62017Balaram RoutThirukkuralDelhi (Sahitya Akademi)

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. [4] [5] Das retired from his IAS career in 1972, after which he took to studying saintly literatures, especially that of Kabir. [6] In 2017, Balaram Rout made another translation, which was published by Sahitya Akademi in Delhi.

In 2022, as part of its Ancient Tamil Classics in Translations series, the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai released its Odia translation of the Kural by Giribala Mohanty.

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Citations

  1. ↑ Tamilselvan et al., 2017, pp. 30–31.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Polilan; K. Gunathogai; Lena Kumar; Tagadur Sampath; Mutthamizh; G. Picchai Vallinayagam; D. Anbunidhi; K. V. Neduncheraladhan, eds. (2019). Tiruvalluvar 2050 (in Tamil) (1 ed.). Chennai: Periyar Enthusiasts Group. p. 682.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tamilselvan et al., 2017, pp. 30–37.
  4. ↑ Tamilselvan et al., 2017, pp. 31–32.
  5. ↑ Sundararajan, S. (1997). Foreword. In: Thirukkural in Oriya (G. N. Das, Trans.) (in Odia). Cuttack: Vidyapuri. pp. vii.
  6. ↑ "Thirukkural in Oriya". OOCities. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

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