Experiment 01 — Translating Bendre & other Kannada poetry
Poetry
Notebook entry — the poetry that wouldn’t leave me alone until I carried it into English. Kannada, Hindi and Sanskrit originals, ancient and modern, each set beside the English it became.
47 works published
Manku Timmana Kagga →
DVG's seminal work, twenty verses to a page.
Bhagavad Gita →
All eighteen chapters.
Vachanas →
Sharana verse by poet — Akkamahadevi, Lakkamma, Kalavve, Remmavve.
Vachanas
Twelfth-century Sharana verse — short, radical, unsparing.
Akkamahadevi
About the SharanaI dress up for my Linga, I
KannadaOne husband for now? One for the
KannadaKeep your meals small, O’brother, keep it
KannadaO’ honey bees, O’ mango tree, O’
KannadaO’ Sister listen, I saw a dream
KannadaHear me, You are my father; then,
KannadaThe form became formless, when One with
KannadaThe body, invoking the Linga, became One
Kannada
Aydakki Lakkamma
About the SharanaChennabankeshwara
About the SharanaDuggale
About the SharanaKadasiddheshwara
About the SharanaMalalubavi-Soma
About the SharanaPanditaradhya
About the SharanaRemmavve
About the SharanaJanapada songs
Anonymous Kannada songs carried down by oral traditions.
Poetry
Modern and classical verse, poet by poet.