Tirukkural translations into Konkani
As of 2023, Konkani has three translations available of the Tirukkural.
Background
editThe first translation of the Kural text in Konkani is that by Narayana Purushothama Mallaya in 2002, which was published by Konkani Bhasha Prachar Sabha, Kochi, India.[1][2][3] In 1987, while attending a translators' workshop organised by the Kendra Sahitya Akademi at Thiruvananthapuram, Mallaya, who was selected as the resource person for Konkani, was requested by the renowned Tamil writer Ka Na Subramaniam to translate the Kural. Mallaya spent the next one-and-a-half decades to translate all the 1330 couplets of the Kural text, which became his 18th work to appear in print. The translation was released by the former Supreme Court judge V. R. Krishna Iyer on 23 June 2002.[2]
Another Konkani translation of the Kural text was made by Suresh Gundu Amonkar, who also translated the Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Gospel of John and Dnyaneshwari.[4][5]
Another translation was made in 2023 by Gowri R. Mallya, an artist and a writer, under the patronage of NITTE (deemed to be university), Deralakatte, Mangaluru. The university's curriculum director Nagesh Prabhu wrote the preface for the translation.[6]
Translations
edit| Translation | Chapter 26, अद्याय २६, मांसाहाराथकून परिवृज | |
|---|---|---|
| Kural 254 (Couplet 26:4) | Kural 258 (Couplet 26:8) | |
| N. Purushothama Mallaya (2002) | नयि हिंसा करचे असा अनुकंपा; असा अन्यथा हिंसकरचे, । जल्यारि खव्चे मृतजलेलयाले मांस नयि केदनाचि विवेक असचे ॥ |
दिव्य दृष्टि असिले, कोण अनुगमन कर्ता एक चूकिनत्तिले धर्मान । खवचेना शरीरं, जीव विमुक्त जले थकून ॥ |
See also
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- ^ 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. 683.
- ^ a b "'Thirukkural' in Konkani". The Hindu. 24 June 2002. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ "Thirukkural translated into Konkani". Kochi: Times of India. 15 June 2002. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ "Amonkar on Goa University Library". Goa University Library. 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Goa's Padmashree Dr. Suresh Gundu Amonkar on Dr. Jose Pereira and Hinduism". Gmane. 8 August 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Thirukkural translated to Konkani". The Times of India. Mangaluru: The Times Group. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.