Mahabharata (I)
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Attribuée (paternité débattue)
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~770 000 mots · 3 680 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAMahābhārata. (n.d.). Mahabharata (I). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mahabharata/the-mahabharata-vol-i-books-1-3-adi-sabha-vana-ganguli
- MLAMahābhārata. "Mahabharata (I)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mahabharata/the-mahabharata-vol-i-books-1-3-adi-sabha-vana-ganguli.
- ChicagoMahābhārata. Mahabharata (I). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mahabharata/the-mahabharata-vol-i-books-1-3-adi-sabha-vana-ganguli.
De quoi il s'agit
Le premier tiers du Mahabharata : les livres Adi, Sabha et Vana — l'origine des deux branches de la famille, la partie de dés qui déclenche tout, et les années d'exil dans la forêt.
Contexte et histoire
C'est la traduction en prose de Kisari Mohan Ganguli, faite entre 1883 et 1896 : la première complète en anglais. Elle a paru des années durant avec le nom de l'éditeur, Pratap Chandra Roy, en couverture, et certains la lui attribuent encore. Le poème n'est l'œuvre ni d'un auteur ni d'une époque : il a grandi pendant des siècles, et la tradition dit elle-même qu'il contient tout ce qui est — qui y cherche un récit suivi y trouvera des traités entiers en travers.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text by Kisari Mohan Ganguli [1883-1896] Scanned at sacred-texts.com, 2003. Proofed at Distributed Proofing, Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager. Additional proofing and formatting at sacred-texts.com, by J. B. Hare. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE The object of a translator should ever be to hold the mirror upto his author. That being so, his chief duty is to represent so far as practicable the manner in which his author’s ideas have been expressed, retaining if possible at the sacrifice of idiom and taste all the peculiarities of his author’s imagery and of language as well. In regard to translations from the Sanskrit, nothing is easier than to dish up Hindu ideas, so as to make them agreeable to English taste. But the endeavour of the present translator has been to give in the following pages as literal a rendering as possible of the great work of Vyasa. To the purely English reader there is much in the following pages that will strike as ridiculous. Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste. Having no knowledge of models other than what they meet with in their own tongue, the standard they have formed of purity and taste in composition must necessarily be a narrow one. The translator, however, would ill-discharge his duty, if for the sake of avoiding ridicule, he sacrificed fidelity to the original. He must represent his author as he is, not as he should be to please the narrow taste of those entirely unacquainted with him. Mr. Pickford, in the preface to his English translation of the Mahavira Charita, ably defends a close adherence to the original even at the sacrifice of idiom and taste against the claims of what has been called ‘Free Translation,’