Bhavartha Ratnakara
Bhavartha Ratnakara — what it is, what it added, and what we retired from it.
Bhavartha Ratnakara — said to have been written by Sri Ramanujacharya (attribution hedged by the translator), translated by B. V. Raman.
Edition consulted: 2nd ed. 1947, Raman Publications, Bangalore.
What kind of text this is
Translator states his method is adaptive, not literal: a translator needs ‘vast practical experience which would enable him to appreciate how far a given combination can be made use of to suit different families.’ Quotations are evidence of what a 20th-c. practitioner understood the text to say.
What it contributed
adaptive-translation-declared — novel. Translator declares translation should be adaptive - judging ‘how far a given combination can be made use of to suit different families’.
Second independent statement that the standard English translations are interpretive, not literal.
translator-dependence — refinement. B. V. Raman is author or translator of six of twenty-four sources - a quarter of the corpus.
Larger than the Santhanam concentration, and it exposed a defect in our own validator, which counted translators and so scored four authored Raman books as four independent voices.
Reading the text yourself
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