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Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar (born 3 December 1933) is a well known translator of Sanskrit classics into English.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Śukasaptati, Bhartṛhari, Bhāsa, Daṇḍin, Dashakumaracharita, English language, Goodreads, Gwalior, Hitopadesha, India, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Jataka tales, Kalidasa, Kalyanamalla, Kama Sutra, Katha (storytelling format), Kenya, Kshemendra, Narayan Pandit, Panchatantra, Penguin Books, Portugal, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Raghuvaṃśa, Samaya Mātrikā, Sanskrit, Seychelles, Singhasan Battisi, Subhashita, Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service, The Doon School, United Nations Environment Programme, United States, University of Allahabad, University of Oxford, Vātsyāyana, Vikramōrvaśīyam, Yugoslavia, 14th Dalai Lama.

  2. Sanskrit–English translators

Śukasaptati

Śukasaptati, or Seventy tales of the parrot, is a collection of stories originally written in Sanskrit.

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Bhartṛhari

Bhartṛhari (Devanagari: भर्तृहरि; Bhartrihari; fl. c. 5th century CE) was an Indian philosopher and poet and is known for his contributions to the field of linguistics, grammar, and philosophy.

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Bhāsa

Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa.

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Daṇḍin

Daṇḍi or Daṇḍin (Sanskrit: दण्डि) was an Indian Sanskrit grammarian and author of prose romances.

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Dashakumaracharita

Dashakumaracharita (The narrative of ten young men, IAST: Daśa-kumāra-Carita, Devanagari: दशकुमारचरित) is a prose romance in Sanskrit, attributed to Dandin (दण्डी), believed to have flourished in the seventh to eighth centuries CE.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Goodreads

Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews.

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Gwalior

Gwalior (Hindi) is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities.

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Hitopadesha

Hitopadesha (Sanskrit: हितोपदेशः, IAST: Hitopadeśa, "Beneficial Advice") is an Indian text in the Sanskrit language consisting of fables with both animal and human characters.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Council for Cultural Relations

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India, involved in India's global cultural relations, through cultural exchange with other countries and their people.

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Jataka tales

The Jātaka (Sanskrit for "Birth-Related" or "Birth Stories") are a voluminous body of literature native to the Indian subcontinent which mainly concern the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form.

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Kalidasa

Kālidāsa (कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.

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Kalyanamalla

Kalyanamalla or Kalyan Malla was a 15th–16th-century Indian poet and writer of Ananga Ranga aka 'Stage of the Bodiless One', a sanskrit manuscript on 'Art of Love'.

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Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र) is an ancient Indian Hindu Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.

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Katha (storytelling format)

Katha (or Kathya) is an Indian style of religious storytelling, performances of which are a ritual event in Hinduism.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kshemendra

Kshemendra was an 11th-century Sanskrit polymath-poet, satirist, philosopher, historian, dramatist, translator and art-critic from Kashmir in India.

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Narayan Pandit

Narayan Pandit (Hindi: नारायण पण्डित), or Narayana (died 10th century), was the Brāhmaṇa author of the Sanskrit treatise called Hitopadesha — a work based primarily on the Panchatantra, one of the oldest collection of stories, mainly animal fables, in the world.

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Panchatantra

The Panchatantra (IAST: Pañcatantra, ISO: Pañcatantra, पञ्चतन्त्र, "Five Treatises") is an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables in Sanskrit verse and prose, arranged within a frame story.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Raghuvaṃśa

(Devanagari: रघुवंशम्, lit. 'lineage of Raghu') is a Sanskrit epic poem (mahakavya) by the celebrated Sanskrit poet Kalidasa.

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Samaya Mātrikā

The Samaya Mātrikā (en: The Courtesan's Keeper) is a satire written by the 11th-century Kashmiri poet Kshemendra.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Seychelles

Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Seychellois Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an island country and archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands (as per the Constitution) in the Indian Ocean.

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Singhasan Battisi

Singhasan Battisi is a collection of Indian folk tales.

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Subhashita

A subhashita (सुभाषित, subhāṣita) is a literary genre of Sanskrit epigrammatic poems and their message is an aphorism, maxim, advice, fact, truth, lesson or riddle.

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Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service

The Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service (सुषमा स्वराज विदेश सेवा संस्थान is the civil service training institute in New Delhi where Indian Foreign Service officers are trained. The institute functions under the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.

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The Doon School

The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935.

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United Nations Environment Programme

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Allahabad

The University of Allahabad is a Public Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Vātsyāyana

Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra.

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Vikramōrvaśīyam

Vikramōrvaśīyam (lit) is a five-act Sanskrit play by ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, who lived in the 4th or 5th Century CE, on the Vedic love story of King Pururavas and an Apsarā (celestial nymph) named Ūrvaśī, known for her beauty.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso;; born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism.

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See also

Sanskrit–English translators

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._D._Haksar

Also known as A N D Haksar, AND Haksar, Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar.