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| I want to buy this book, but I see that there are approx. 1000000345 translations. Is there an edition that is considered standard? |
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| ShaktiGrrl - 2007-07-22 1:50 PM
I want to buy this book, but I see that there are approx. 1000000345 translations. Is there an edition that is considered standard?
Namaste ShaktiGrrl,
Perhaps, you can come out with your own interpretation of the book.
Yet, Truth, does not change.
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| Translation is different from interpretation. And, interpretation is different from commentary. If you are looking for translation, you should look for the one from the one who knows Sanskrit Language. And, if you are looking for the commentary (or sometimes, wrongly called interpretation), you should look one from the one who knows Sanskrit and also Yoga Philosophy well. Best Luck.
ShaktiGrrl - 2007-07-22 1:50 PM
I want to buy this book, but I see that there are approx. 1000000345 translations. Is there an edition that is considered standard? |
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| Wow. Thanks for the English language lesson. So you are saying that I should look for an edition of a Sanskrit text that has been translated by somebody who speaks Sanskrit. Thanks for the revelation. I speak 4 languages (no, Sanskrit is not one of them); I think I can handle the diff. between interpretation, commentary and translation. In case you didn't know (wow, I can be sarcastic and condescending, too), tranlsations are something that very from translator to translator. For example, when I am watching a movie in a language I speak w. subtitles, I notice that the translator takes certain liberties w. the translation and the translation is not a word for word direct translation. When texts are oft-translating, there is usually a "standard" text. I notice that yoga practice attracts all kinds of crakpots and people with reductive, half baked knowledge. I am trying to get the most standard translation w.o Western New Age bull****. Thanks for all your help! Namaste.
Edited by ShaktiGrrl 2007-07-25 11:20 AM
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| ShaktiGrrl - 2007-07-26 7:19 PM
So you are saying that I should look for an edition of a Sanskrit text that has been translated by somebody who speaks Sanskrit. Thanks for the revelation.
Hi Skakti,
You'd be surprised how many Yoga texts have been 'translated' by people who can not speak Sanskrit.
I would recommend either Georg Feuerstein's or Neel's.
Both are excellent, though it would be best to choose one and stick to just that text.
JOnathon
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