Clay Sanskrit Library

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Sample page layout from Budhasvāmin's The Emperor of the Sorcerors
Sample page layout from Budhasvāmin's The Emperor of the Sorcerors

The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit) on the left-hand page, with its English translation on the right. The series was modeled on the Loeb Classical Library,[1] and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.

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[edit] CSL and the JJC Foundation

The JJC Foundation was founded by John P. Clay and his wife, Jennifer. John Clay, who was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1934, went to Oxford University in the 1950s, where he studied classics and Sanskrit literature. He went on to a long career in global investment banking with Clay Finlay, Inc, New York, and Vickers da Costa, New York. But in 1999 he decided that he wanted to return to his real passion, Sanskrit literature, and envisioned a series that would make all the classics available to the general public for the first time. He shared his vision for the Clay Sanskrit Library with Richard Gombrich, Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University from 1965 to 2004, and Richard Gombrich agreed to serve as general editor of the series. They invited Somadeva Vasudeva and Isabelle Onians (themselves Sanskrit scholars) as associate editors for the series, as well as thirty leading academics from eight different countries to produce new translations of classical Sanskrit literature. John Clay now lives in New York City. In 2007 Sheldon Pollock joined Richard Gombrich as co-general editor. Richard Gombrich resigned from the post in early 2008.

The first books in the series were published in 2005. At present, there are 32 volumes available.

[edit] Current Volumes

[edit] Epic

Maha·bhárata
  • Maha·bhárata II: The Great Hall (Sabhāparvan): 588 pp, Paul Wilmot, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8147-9406-7
  • Maha·bhárata III: The Forest (Vanaparvan) (volume four of four): 374 pp, William J. Johnson, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8147-4278-5
  • Maha·bhárata IV: Viráta (Virāṭaparvan): 516 pp, Kathleen Garbutt, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8147-3183-3
  • Maha·bhárata V: Preparations for War (Udyogaparvan) (volume one of two): 450 pp, Kathleen Garbutt, with a foreword by Gurcharan Das, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8147-3191-8
  • Maha·bhárata VII: Drona (Droṇaparvan) (volume one of four): 473 pp, Vaughan Pilikian, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8147-6723-8
  • Maha·bhárata VIII: Karna (Karṇaparvan) (volume one of two): 604 pp, Adam Bowles, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8147-9981-9
  • Maha·bhárata VIII: Karna (Karṇaparvan) (volume two of two): 624 pp, Adam Bowles, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8147-9995-6
  • Maha·bhárata IX: Shalya (Śalyaparvan) (volume one of two): 371 pp, Justin Meiland, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8147-5706-2
  • Maha·bhárata IX: Shalya (Śalyaparvan) (volume two of two): 470 pp, Justin Meiland, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8147-5737-6
Ramáyana by Valmíki
  • Ramáyana I: Boyhood (Bālakāṇḍa): 424 pp, Robert P. Goldman, 2005, ISBN 0-8147-3163-5
  • Ramáyana II: Ayódhya (Ayodhyākāṇḍa): 652 pp, Sheldon I. Pollock, 2005, ISBN 0-8147-6716-8
  • Ramáyana III: The Forest (Araṇyakāṇḍa): 436 pp, Sheldon I. Pollock, 2006, ISBN 0-8147-6722-2
  • Ramáyana IV: Kishkíndha (Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa): 415 pp, Rosalind Lefeber, 2005, ISBN 0-8147-5207-1
  • Ramáyana V: Súndara (Sundarakāṇḍa): 538 pp, Robert P. Goldman & Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, 2006, ISBN 0-8147-3178-3

[edit] Classical poetry

Kālidāsa's The Recognition of Shakúntala, ed. Somadeva Vasudeva
Kālidāsa's The Recognition of Shakúntala, ed. Somadeva Vasudeva

[edit] Drama

[edit] Other narrative

[edit] To Appear in 2008

The Quartet of Causeries: 450 pp, Csaba Dezső & Somadeva Vasudeva, 2008, ISBN 0-8147-1978-3
Seven Hundred Elegant Verses: c. 360 pp, Friedhelm Hardy, 2008, ISBN 0-8147-3687-4
The Ocean of the Rivers of Story (Kathāsaritsāgara) (vol. two of seven) by Somadeva. Sir James Mallinson
How the Nagas were Pleased (Nāgānanda) by Harṣa and The Shattered Thighs (Ūrubhaṅga) by Bhāsa. Andrew Skilton
Maha·bhárata V: Preparations for War (Udyogaparvan) (volume two of two). Kathleen Garbutt
Maha·bhárata VI: Bhishma (Bhīṣmaparvan) (volume one of two). Alex Cherniak. With a foreword by Ranajit Guha

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Eric Banks, "100 Paths to Nirvana", Bookforum Dec./Jan. 2006.

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