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The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India

The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India in Bloomington, MN
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Winner of the 1995 Translation Prize of the National Academy of Letters, India
The Cilappati
k
¯
aram is to Tamil what the Iliad and Odyssey are to Greek - its importance would be difficult to overstate. . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)
A fine, luminous translation of an Indian classic. It is a poet's translation. Parthasarathy's poetic skills are everywhere in evidence, yet guided by his sensitive scholarship and fidelity. (A. K. Ramanujan, University of Chicago)
The
Cilappatikaram
is to Tamil what the
Iliad
and
Odyssey
are to Greek--its importance would be difficult to overstate . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)
The Cilappati
k
¯
aram is to Tamil what the Iliad and Odyssey are to Greek - its importance would be difficult to overstate. . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)
A fine, luminous translation of an Indian classic. It is a poet's translation. Parthasarathy's poetic skills are everywhere in evidence, yet guided by his sensitive scholarship and fidelity. (A. K. Ramanujan, University of Chicago)
The
Cilappatikaram
is to Tamil what the
Iliad
and
Odyssey
are to Greek--its importance would be difficult to overstate . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)