डान् क्विक्षोटः Don Quixote
(Chapters I.45, I.46, I.50, II.6 & II.12)
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Translated from English into Kashmiri by Jagaddhar Zadoo & Nityanand Shastri
Facsimile edition with the English translation by Charles Jarvis
Introduced by Surindar Nath Pandita & edited by Dragomir Dimitrov
Pune 2024
Pune Indological Series, vol. III
The present book contains a facsimile edition of a unique modern Kashmiri translation of five chapters from Cervantes’s famous Don Quijote. At the suggestion of the American accountant and book collector Carl Tilden Keller (1872–1955) and with the mediation of the Hungarian-born British explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) from November 1935 until September 1936 Pandit Nityanand Shastri (1874–1942) and Pandit Jagaddhar Zadoo (1890–1981) translated chapters I.45, I.46, I.50, II.6 and II.12 of the Spanish classic. However, for this purpose the two Kashmiri scholars did not use Cervantes’s original, but rather its English translation by Charles Jarvis (c. 1675–1739) prepared in the first half of the eighteenth century, and in particular the edition by the British Hispanist James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (1858–1923) published in 1907 for the Oxford World’s Classics series. In this book the Kashmiri translation and the corresponding parts of Jarvis’s English version are presented on facing pages. The Kashmiri text is reproduced as a facsimile of the autograph prepared by Pandit Jagaddhar Zadoo, one of the two Kashmiri translators. The Kashmiri text in the present volume was written on modern paper in easily legible Devanagari characters by using only a few more additional diacritic symbols. This publication contains an introduction written by Surindar Nath Pandita, a grandson of Pandit Nityanand Shastri. The book can be regarded as a conjoined twin of the partial Sanskrit translation of Don Quijote published as volume III of the Pune Indological Series in 2019.
"डान् क्विक्षोटः / Don Quixote" in Kashmiri will appeal to specialists with interests in a variety of fields such as Indian and Comparative linguistics, Indology, Romance languages and literature, as well as translational and cultural studies.