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Title: The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
Translator: Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Release date: March 26, 2005 [eBook #15474]
Most recently updated: December 14, 2020
Language: English
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BOOK 1
ADI PARVA
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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 easi…