{"id":46072,"date":"2022-07-06T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/jul\/06\/first-modern-novel-oldest-language-sanskrit-translation-of-don-quixote-rescued-from-oblivion"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:00:22","slug":"first-modern-novel-oldest-language-sanskrit-translation-of-don-quixote-rescued-from-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46072","title":{"rendered":"\u2018First modern novel \u2013 oldest language\u2019: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University library<\/p>\n<p>There is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book collector, the Hungarian-British explorer and the two Kashmiri pandits who, almost a century ago, took it upon themselves to translate Don Quixote into Sanskrit for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the same word might equally be applied to the efforts of the Bulgarian-born Indologist and Tibetologist who has rescued their text from decades of oblivion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/jul\/06\/first-modern-novel-oldest-language-sanskrit-translation-of-don-quixote-rescued-from-oblivion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University libraryThere is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,221,62,432,61,746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-europe","category-india","category-kashmir","category-south-and-central-asia","category-spain","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46073,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072\/revisions\/46073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}