Dear Mrinal, The Gita press translation is generally accurate and reliable (tell your friend to ignore the Mahātmya at the beginning): https://archive.org/details/kvrE_shrimad-bhagavata-mahapurana-english-of-c.-l.-goswami-m.-a-shastri-part-1-gita-press-gorakhpur/mode/2up The Motilal translation by Tagare is a paraphrase of the Gita Press edition and not always an improvement, but easier to obtain a print copy of: https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.16139/page/n5/mode/2up
There's a very good abridged translation by V. Raghavan: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68509/page/n185/mode/2up The 'translation' by Bibek Debroy is truly atrocious. For Canto 10 only: Edwin Bryant's translation is very nice: Edwin Bryant (2004), Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God: Srimad Bhagavata Purana Book X, Penguin, ISBN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)> 978-0140447996 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0140447996> Otherwise there is a very good annotated selection by Gupta and Valpey here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-bhagavata-purana/9780231169011 The Bhāgavatam is often more Kāvya than Purāṇa and so is very difficult to do justice to in translation! Best wishes, Oliver On Mon, 2 Sept 2024 at 05:14, Mrinal Kaul via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > A non-Sanskritist colleague is looking for a standard/reliable/good > quality/literal English translation (without any comments or annotations > etc.) of the *Bhāgavata Purāṇa*. I do not have any translations with me > (except for the text) that I can compare and give an opinion on. I am sure > many scholars on this list will have a ready answer. Any advice/suggestion > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much. > > Mrinal > ----- > Mrinal Kaul (he/ him/ his) > Assistant Professor of Indian Philosophy > Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) > Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) > Powai, Mumbai 400076, INDIA > Tel: +91 22-2576-5349 Extn: 5349 (office) > Tel: +91 22-62513773 (Residence) > email: [email protected] > *https://www.hss.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/mrinal-kaul > <https://www.hss.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/mrinal-kaul>* > https://iitbombay.academia.edu/MrinalKaul > Meeting: meet.google.com/gtj-tdms-tpg > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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