Myriad Miracle: Lalon's Song.

• Author: Das, Rahul Peter

Another English translation of twenty-five of Lalan's songs(9) focuses, in its selection, not only on their transcendental religious, but also social aspect. The translator's English is however peculiar, and is sometimes so incomprehensible as to be nearly mystical (maybe because he himself is a poet too), both as regards the translations and the introduction to them, though some expressions do have a quaint charm of their own: e.g., "The string of beads rosaried some, garlanded others" (p. 4; obviously keu mala keu tas'bi gale).(10) It...