By 2017, there were at least six translations of the Tirukkural in Odia, all published after the 1970s.
History of translations The first translation of the Kural text in Odia appeared in 1978 by Chittaranjan Das, which was published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Bhubaneswar. The list of Kural translations in Odia appears in the following table.
No. Year Translator Title Location and Publisher Notes1 1978 Chittaranjan Das Kural [Oriya] Bhubaneswar: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Appeared in 154 pages.2 1985 Kshirod Dash Tirukkuralu Sambalpur A translations in verse3 1992 Nityanada Acharya Tirukkural: Book of Sacred Couplets Balangir, Orissa: Agragami Karyalaya Translated only the first two parts (Virtue and Wealth)4 1994 Gananath Das Cuttack: Vidyapuri Publishers Complete translation in verse. Based on the Hindi translation of Tirukkural by M. G. Venkatakrishnan5 1996 Biswanath Misra Tirukkural Bhubaneswar 6 2017 Balaram Rout Thirukkural Delhi (Sahitya Akademi)
G. N. Das's translation is based on the Hindi translation of the Tirukkural by M. G. Venkatakrishnan, and is also influenced by the English translations by P. S. Sundaram and Drew–Lazarus and Sanskrit translation by S. N. Srirama Desikan. Das retired from his IAS career in 1972, after which he took to studying saintly literatures, especially that of Kabir. In 2017, Balaram Rout made another translation, which was published by Sahitya Akademi in Delhi.
In 2022, as part of its Ancient Tamil Classics in Translations series, the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Chennai released its Odia translation of the Kural by Giribala Mohanty.
See also
Tirukkural translations List of Tirukkural translations by language
Citations
References
Published Translations G. N. Das. (1997). Thirukkural in Oriya (Foreword by S. Sundararajan). Cuttack: Vidyapuri.