When did translation make its first appearance in India?
September 29, 2009 - 7:15 pm
Which Indian language has the oldest term for translation? Which was the first text to be translated into an Indian language? Which was the first text translated from an Indian language into a non-Indian one, and vice versa? Which Indian language today has the largest translation industry?
Translation must be ‘lost in the mists of antiquity’ in India. I believe bilingual inscriptions of King Asoka exist. I have an idea he had Buddhist scriptures translated into Greek.
But a good claimant for the first Indian text translated into a modern non-Indian language must be the Bhagavad Gita, into English in 1785.
Google Sir William Jones.
September 30th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Translation must be ‘lost in the mists of antiquity’ in India. I believe bilingual inscriptions of King Asoka exist. I have an idea he had Buddhist scriptures translated into Greek.
But a good claimant for the first Indian text translated into a modern non-Indian language must be the Bhagavad Gita, into English in 1785.
Google Sir William Jones.
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