Lal P Transl (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near New. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1974. Very Good+ flexible cloth covers/ Very Good clear plastic dust jacket; 8.5" tall; orange cloth; no markings of any kind; 39 pages. Original title, in Sanskrit: Matta-vilasa Prahasanam, composed by Mahendravarman I, a 7th century (c. 571-630 AD) king of the South Indian Pallava dynasty. Two Kapalis, a wandering Shaivite monk and his female companion, visit the great city of Kanchipuram where they lose their skull begging bowl and encounter a Buddhist monk and a mad dog. 0-88253-301-0.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Calcutta: Writers Workshop Publication, 1969. First Edition. Very Good+ hardcover/ Very Good+ paper title label/no dust jacket; 8vo/8.75" tall, gilt lettered red handloom cloth with gilt medallion on front, purple/white/gold woven border; mild sunning to backstrip; unmarked, near new exterior and interior; unnumbered pages. A selection from 38 songs originally composed in Punjabi by Guru Nanak (1469-1539), founder of the Sikh religion: Songs 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 23, 31, 33, & 34. This selection has been 'transcreated' by the poet P. Lal; it forms a sequel to his JAPJI: Volume One. Lal: "Some songs (Nos. 6, 14, 15) have been re-translated, to give readers an idea of how approaches to the same text may differ at different times of a transcreator's understanding of the meaning." ISBN: 088253-708-3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 2nd Edition. Calcutta: A Writers Workshop Publication, 1971. Good+ hardcover/ Very Good paper title label/no dust jacket. 8.5 inches tall. Gilt lettered handloom cloth with gilt medallion on front, multi-woven border; moderate exterior soiling/light handling; otherwise unmarked, near new interior; unnumbered pages. A selection from 38 songs originally composed in Punjabi by Guru Nanak (1469-1539), founder of the Sikh religion: Invocation; Jap: Meditation; Songs 1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20, 22, 23, 35, & 38. This selection has been 'transcreated' by the poet P. Lal. Availability: in stock, in the U.S. ISBN: 088253-262-6.

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971. 2nd Edition. Very Good flexible cloth covers/Very Good paper title label; 8.5" tall; transliteration chart. 33 pages. A lucid translation from the original Sanskrit. Includes Professor Lal's essay: The Difficulties of Translation. Includes the transliteration of the original Sanskrit with a verse-by-verse literal translation which is then compared to the 1930s Yeats-Purohit version. Variant spelling: Isha Upanishad Ishavasya Upanishad ISBN: 0-88253-545-8.

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1967. First Edition.Very Good flexible cloth covers/VG+ paper title band. Anthology of poetry selected here from the Subhasita-ratna-kosa and translated from Sanskrit into English by P. Lal. The original anthology was compiled c. 1100 by a Buddhist monk, Vidyakara. Authors included here: Salika, Ravigupta, Silhana, Rajasekhara, Bhasa, Dharmakirti, Vira, Abhiseka, Vidya, Varahamihira, Bhartrhari, Yogesvara, Gangadharh, Viryamitra, Vasukalpa, Sri Dharmakara. ISBN: 0-89253-520-2.

Flexible Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Very Good flexible cloth/Very Good+ dust jacket. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1969. First Edition. Blue handloom cloth on card covers/ gilt stamped lettering; 8.5 inches tall; text printed from P. Lal's hand-lettered manuscript; unnumbered pages. Small smudge on margin of one page, otherwise unmarked. ISBN: 0-86578-006-4 Vaishnava Upanishad. Addressed to Narasimha, the Man-Lion avatar of Vishnu.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971. As new hardcover/no dust jacket/Very Good paper title label; 8.75"h x 5.5"; 4 pages illustrated with 8 Sanskrit poems in saffron lettering by P. Lal; index of first lines & titles; 31pp. India love poetry. Translations from Vidyakara's 11th century Sanskrit anthology Subhasita-ratna-kosa. Availability: in stock in the U.S.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Writers Workshop Calcutta, 1971. 2nd Edition. Very Good hardcover/Very Good paper title label; 8.5" tall; transliteration chart. 34 pages. A lucid translation from the original Sanskrit. Includes Professor Lal's essay: The Difficulties of Translation. Includes the transliteration of the original Sanskrit with a verse-by-verse literal translation which is then compared to the 1930s Yeats-Purohit version. Variant spelling: Isha Upanishad Ishavasya Upanishad ISBN: 0-88253-274-X.