Barbara Miller Translates Indian Classics at Barnard
Barbara Stoler Miller, Barnard Oriental Studies chair and Columbia Sanskritist, discusses her path from Michigan to Barnard, Penn, and India. She highlights translating Bhartrihari and Bilhana, current Gita Govindam and Ramayana projects, and the challenges and rewards of being a woman in academia.
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Barbara Stoler Miller
Barnard Oriental Studies Department
Barnard
India
Professor Miller
Great Neck
N.Y
Yeats
Eliot
Miller
Goethe
Faust
Thomas Mann
Barnard College
Chandigar
Columbia
U. of Penn
W. Norman Brown
Penn
Stella Kramrish
Poona
Bhartrihari
Bilhana
Jayadeva
Radha
Krishna
Vishnu
Gildersleeve
R.K. Narayan
Ford Foundation
Hanuman's Celestial Quest in Ramayana Excerpt
Excerpt from the Ramayana translated by Barbara Miller shows Hanuman preparing to trace Sita. He leaps through celestial landscapes, growing to lion size and alarming the wild. on a plateau he encounters gods, shape shifters, and serpents among lotus colored ores.
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Hanuman
Sita
Ravana
Barbara Miller
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