‘A puzzle-solving activity’: NS Gundur on translating DR Nagaraj’s seminal work on Allama Prabhu

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:37:08 +0000

Now for the task of the translator. Instead of proposing my theory of translation adopted in my translation of DR Nagaraj’s Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination, I would like to narrate the way this translation progressed – for, as Nietzsche has it, all theory is autobiography (or, more accurately, autobiographical). Before that, a short detour into the history of translating the vachanakaras and Allama is in order.