Don Quixote in Sanskrit

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Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby iguanamon » Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:14 pm

This came to me via Twitter today: ‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion- from the Guardian via the Cervantes Institute.

I would've been more impressed if the translation were directly from Medieval Spanish... but... maybe that's to be left for another day.

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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby galaxyrocker » Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:46 pm

This reminds me that at least part of it was also translated into Irish. It's interesting what languages these things got translated into!
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby Querneus » Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:20 pm

Very interesting. I don't think this book is even available in Latin. Not yet.

Pedantic note: Don Quixote isn't in medieval Spanish ~ Old Spanish, but early modern Spanish, at least under the usual meanings of the labels.
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby guyome » Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:21 am

Querneus wrote:Very interesting. I don't think this book is even available in Latin. Not yet.
Actually there is a Latin translation by Antonio Peral Torres: Dominus Quixotus a Manica, Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 1998. You can read some comments about it at Textkit.
In quodam loco Manicae regionis, cuius nominis nolo meminisse, nuper vivebat quidam fidalgus ex eis de quibus fertur eos habere lanceam in repositorio, scutum antiquum, equum macrum canemque venaticum cursorem. Etiam erat ei olla potius ex carne bovina quam ovina, pluries in coena condimentum coquebatur, sabbato autem angores et afflictiones ut dicitur, die Veneris pulmentum de lentibus, dominico die vero ad haec omnia addebatur quaedam columba quibus et hoc modo tres partes bonorum eius consumebantur. Quod ei supererat serviebat ad vestes emendas tamquam femoralia ex serico praetexto pro diebus festivis cum tibialibus eiusdem generis, tamen per hebdomadam induebat vestem praestantem. Domi autem erat ei hera domus plus quam quadraginta annos nata et neptis, quae viginti annos nondum adimpleverat, et etiam famulus agri, qui eodem modo cingebat selam equo vel utebatur forfice ad arbores putandas. Aetas huius fidalgi erat circa quinquaginta annos. Complexio eius erat fortis, sed macillentus corpore et gracilis vultu, promptus ad surgendum mane ex lecto atque aliquando fruebatur venatione. Dicebatur nomen eius esse Quixada sive Quesada, in quo est aliqua diversitas apud auctores qui hoc tractant, quamvis per veras opiniones eorum reperiatur eum Quexanam fuisse. Tamen hoc non est prorsus tam magni momenti ad nostram fabulam: satis est nobis ut narratio omnem veritatem ostendat.

There is also a version in Macaronic Latin by Ignatius Calvus (1922).
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby Querneus » Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:36 am

What can I say, that's fantastic to hear. I only knew of the macaronic translation. And the Latin does seem simple without complicated periods in that excerpt. The title seems to be Dominus Quixotus a Manica btw.
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby einzelne » Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:45 am

guyome wrote:Actually there is a Latin translation


I was waiting for your comment! :D
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby cito » Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:33 am

Sanskrit!! So cool. Maybe there’s hope one day we’ll get one in Ancient a Greek :D !!
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby tractor » Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:01 pm

Querneus wrote:Pedantic note: Don Quixote isn't in medieval Spanish ~ Old Spanish, but early modern Spanish, at least under the usual meanings of the labels.

Even more pedantic note: Don Quixote often speaks in a very archaic way, imitating the language of the books he read before he went mad, so it’s not all in early modern Spanish.
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby guyome » Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:53 pm

Thanks for the correction about the book's title, Querneus. I will edit my post.

You're welcome, einzelne :D
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Re: Don Quixote in Sanskrit

Postby RyanSmallwood » Fri Jul 08, 2022 3:50 pm

When I clicked on this link I wasn't expecting to find a 5 hours Sanskrit audiobook just freely available for download. Wasn't expecting this to be a resource I might actually use some day, but its hard to pass up free audiobooks. Just hope they continue to do audio recordings for future translations.
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