Publication details
Subhāṣita-Mañjarī: A Selection of 101 Subhāṣitas in Sanskrit with Translations into 13 Languages
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Peer-reviewed scientific article |
| Magazine / Source | Global Buddhist Studies |
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| web | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/gbs/1/1/1_3/_article |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.69463/gbs.1.1_13 |
| Keywords | subha?ita, Sanskrit poetry, Sanskrit literature, Spoken Sanskrit, multilingual translation |
| Description | This paper presents a multilingual translation of the Subha?ita-Manjari (literally, “a cluster of wise sayings”; Padmaja Prakashan, 2015, 4th rev. ed.), a traditional Sanskrit collection of didactic verses selected and compiled by Dr. Sadananda Das of Leipzig University. It contains 101 verses suitable for Sanskrit language study and moral instruction, accompanied by parallel translations in 13 languages: Japanese, Korean, Modern Chinese, Classical Chinese, Tibetan, Odia, Czech, Polish, German, Italian, French, English, and Spanish. The work was undertaken as an international collaboration led by Dr. Sadananda Das and Dr. Yosuke Fujimoto of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, and originated in a summer school in Spoken Sanskrit held in Leipzig in 2024. The translations reflect the varied approaches by individual translators in balancing semantic fidelity to the Sanskrit original with literary expression appropriate to each target language. Alongside the translated texts, this paper includes appendices containing an overview of the Sanskrit meters used in the Subha?ita-Manjari and audio recordings of the subha?itas in Sanskrit, Odia, Czech, and Korean. The publication is thus intended to serve as a resource for the study of classical Sanskrit wisdom and culture worldwide. |