Author: Mohan Singh Karki
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120817990
Description
This book opens a new vista in the sphere of verse translation in India. With the Hindi version and notes, the book will be a valuable reading especially for the English-speaking readers.
In the introductory part there is a departure from a mass of Hindi criticism. The bases of selection of dohas from the Sakhi are:
1> Kabir's proverbial and worldly wisdom
2> Analogy-finding gift
3> richness and variety of imagery
4> recurrent theme of death
5> gift for satire
6> rhetorical powers
This introductory part primarily focuses on Kabir as poet, which is his 'real estimate'. Thus the introductory part is a piece of scholarly criticism judging and appreciating Kabir's Sakhi on the canons of English literary criticism.
The versification (four-line stanza-form in loose lambic tetrameter lines) has an easy flow and almost parallels the flow of Kabir's dohas. With the Hindi version and notes, the book will be a valuable reading especially for the English-speaking readers.
THE AUTHOR-TRANSLATOR:
MOHAN SINGH KARKI taught English language and literature at different colleges. His published doctoral dissertation 'Robert Frost: Theory and Practice of the Colloquial and Sound of Sense' enjoyed the reputation of being an outstanding work. Besides this, he edited with copious scholarly notes, The Golden Treasure - An anthology of English poems and The Facets of English Prose - an anthology comprising parables, fable, allegory, irony, diary, letter, biography and autobiography.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgement
A Brief Biographical Sketch of Kabir
Introduction to Kabir : The Saint - Poet
THE SAKHI : CORPUS (Characteristics)
1. Of Guru of the Deity
2. Of Remembering God
3. Of Pain of Separation
4. Of Pain in Preceptive Enlightenment
5. Of Communion (with God)
6. Of Classic Ancient
7. Of Loyal Wife Sans Desire of Fruit
8. Of Portent
9. Of Heart (Full of Desires)
10. Of Subtle Ways
11. Of Subtle Birth
12. Of Maya
13. Of The Shrewd (Brahmin)
14. Of Deeds Sans Words
15. Of Words Sans Deeds
16. Of Lusty Man and Of Lust
17. Of Truth
18. Of End of Fallacy
19. Of (Simulative) Guise
20. Of Bad Company
21. Of Company
22. Of The Unrighteous
23. Of The Righteous
24. Of The Righteous in Transcendental State
25. Of Magnitude of Righteousness
26. Of One Two Takes the Substance
27. Of One Two Takes the Insubstantial
28. Of Exhortations
29. Of Faith
30. Of Identifying the Lover (God)
31. Of Reclusion
32. Of Potence
33. Of The Foul word
34. Of The Word
35. Of Life-in-Death
36. Of The Perfidious
37. Of Guru-Disciple search
38. Of Love and Affection
39. Of Bravery
40. Of Time/Death
41. Of Elixir
42. Of The Non-Assayer
43. Of The Assayer
44. Of The Origin of Devotion
45. Of The Musk Deer
46. Of Vituperation
47. Of The Virtue less
48. Of Entreaty
49. Of The Creeper
50. Of The Indivisible
51. Of A Man Sans Guru
52. Of Selfishness
53. Of Philanthropy
54. Of Love
55. Of The Loyal Wife
56. Of Alien God
57. Of Peace
58. Of Vainglory
59. Of Contentment
60. Of Pardon
61. Of Hearsay
62. Of The Middle
63. Of Thinking
64. Of Equivocal Mind
65. Of Oneness
66. Of Repentance
67. Of The Universal
68. Of The Non-Vegetarian
69. Of Non-Vituperation
70. Of The Non-Gourmet
71. The Miscellaneous
Notes
Glossary (Of Hindi Words)
Select Bibliography
Index of First Half-Lines in Hindi and Corresponding first-lines in English