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later ones by the classical poets after the folk pattern. (i) The only authorised translation into English, published by the University of Calcutta, 1959. (2) After this paper was completed, I learnt that two more editions of the Gahāsattasai have just come out; one from Ahemedabad (Prakrit Text Society) and another from Udaipur. Bibliotheca Indica, No.295, The Asiatic society, Calcutta, 1971. Then I also translated them into Kannada prose. The Poet-translators' Workshop at Bhopal, organized by the National Sahitya Academy, declared that such translation is really effective: News item, The Times of India, 13-9-1976. As I would call it so. I also carried on such experiments in Kannada (my mother tongue) and translated a pretty good number of gahās after this ideal. I have followed here in the transcript the text of the gahās as found in Weber's Leipzig edition of 1881. They - other wives. In those days there was a custom that, after washing one's feet in the evening, one should not go out. The shrewd house-wife thus prevented her husband from going to another woman, possibly another wife, then staying at her parents' in the same village. We - my lover and I, endeavouring to quench the fire. I am grateful to Prof.A. Menezes (Karnatak University) who read the tranlation of these gahās and gave me some suggestions
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