The only Sanskrit A N D Haksar, 85, officially learnt was at school. But over the last three decades, the former career diplomat has translated a remarkable pool of popular and lesser-known Sanskrit ...

The Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award is awarded each year at the Jaipur Literature Festival. This year translator Óscar Pujol receives the award for translating from Sanskrit to Spanish.

Today, 150 of the 400 students in the local Sri Sharada Vilasa school study Sanskrit as their first language A village in the southern state of Karnataka where most residents speak Sanskrit is in ...

In a significant development, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday announced the extension of translation services in Parliament to six additional languages -- Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Manipuri, Urdu, ...

There are 100 verses in Saundarya Lahari, although some versions have up to 103 verses. The first part of forty-one verses called ‘Ananda Lahari’ (Wave of Bliss) describes Devi’s power, her ...

The UN Charter — seminal treaty of the United Nations — has been translated into Sanskrit, thanks to Dr Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, 75, of Lucknow who took it upon himself to promote the Indian language ...