PASCATYA TATTVASASTRA ITHIHASAH — The History of Western Philosophy in Sanskrit: P. Sri Ramachandrudu; Pub. by P. Subbalakshmi, “Nandanam” 7-1-32/4P-2 (892) Leela Nagar, Begumpet, Hyderabad-500016. Rs. 250.

By S. Revathy

This book is a verbatim Sanskrit translation of Frank Thilly’s History of Philosophy. It is indeed the first of its kind, and philosophers and English-knowing Sanskritists will be deeply grateful to Sri Ramachandrudu for having successfully accomplished it.

The vast experience he has gained as a teacher and his intimate acquaintance with the Western philosophical literature easily singles him out as one best equipped for translating it into Sanskrit. Translation is a special form of the basic interpretive process of “bringing to understanding.” Herein, one brings what is foreign, strange or unintelligible into the medium of one’s language. The translator mediates between one world and another.

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