D. R. Nagaraj

So I was thinking which book would meet this criterion.

So then I made up my mind to translate D. R. Nagraj's Allama Prabhu, Mathu Shaiva Pratibhe.

And then I applied.

I got through it.

His own method, probably, which we may call Indian method, although he's not successful completely in doing this.

The first thing he does here is problematizing the writing of the history of Indian philosophy.

You know, according to Nagraj, the historians of Indian philosophy, in their account, leave out figures like Allama Prabhu, Sarahapada, Bhima Bowie of Odisha because They did their philosophy through poetry, through images, figurative language, through metaphors.

They did not do philosophy like Shankaracharya with concepts, ghana, rigorous concepts.

Um, th- this is how, uh, you see, uh, the author of this, uh, Kannada text, Allama Prabhu and Mattu Shaiva Pratibe, I have translated this into English as Allama Prabhu and the Shaiva Imagination.

Uh, D.R. Nagaraj was a professor of, uh, Kannada literature.

He taught at, uh, Bangalore University and then later, mm, at Chicago.

Uh, he's a great influence on our generation, and, uh, I was fascinated by his thought.

The book should speak from the Kannada world, from Kannada language to, to beyond, uh, uh, the Kannada world, boundaries of Kannada world, like, uh, the Anglophone readers.

So I was thinking which book would, um, [clears throat] um, meet this, this, this criterion.

So then I, I made up my mind, uh, to translate D.R. Nagaraj's Allama Prabhu Mattu Shaiva Pratibe, and then I applied.

I got through it, and I got the fellowship, and I took, uh, almost, uh, uh, three to four years, uh, to complete, uh, this book.

So I was thinking which book would meet this criterion.

So then I made up my mind to translate D. R. Nagraj's Allama Prabhu, Mattu Shaiva Pratibhe.

And then I applied, I got through it, and I got the fellowship, and I took almost three to four years to complete this book.

Yeah, it's fascinating.

His own method, probably, which we may call Indian method, although he's not successful completely in doing this.

The first thing he does here is problematizing the writing of the history of Indian philosophy.

You know, according to Nagraj, the historians of Indian philosophy, in their account, leave out figures like Allama Prabhu, Sarahapada, Bhima Bowie of Odisha, because They did their philosophy through poetry, through images, figurative language, through metaphors.

They did not do philosophy like Shankaracharya with concepts, ghana, rigorous concepts.