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P. Lal

P. Lal (Purusho ama Lal) was a tan of Indian English literature. He was a dis nguished academic and a Padma Shri awardee. In 1958, he founded the Writers Workshop to champion experimental voices and establish English as a crea ve vehicle for original Indian literature. A renowned poet and translator, he is famously known for his "transcrea ons" of the Mahabharata and Ramayana from original Sanskrit texts which remain a defini ve bridge between ancient Sanskrit and modern readers in English language.
List of Books written by P. Lal
The Mahabharata of Vyasa: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e by P. Lal

 

The Mahabharata of Vyasa: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e

 Vikas Publishing

 

  • 9789370636729
  • 416 pages
  • Paperback
  • Rs.699.00
  • 2026

 

There are many condensed versions in English of the Mahabharata of Vyasa, but the only one that can be called a translation is Dr V Raghavan's rendering, which, by shortening the 100, 000 shloka epic to about 2,000 shlokas, is microscopic in its compression. The aim here has been to retell the story of the Kurukshetra war in greater detail, always in ...

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The Ramayana of Valmiki: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e by P. Lal

 

The Ramayana of Valmiki: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e

 Vikas Publishing

 

  • 9789370636866
  • 408 pages
  • Paperback
  • Rs.699.00
  • 2026

 

Valmiki's RAMAYANA, one of the greatest stories of all time, has been sung and chanted down the centuries by peoples from the farthest corners of the Indian continent.

This epic about Dharma, as though through a kind of cyclical journey — of birth and memory, death and forgetfulness — was discovered again and yet ...

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