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The Swadhyaya Movement or Swadhyaya Parivara started in mid 20th-century in the western states of India, particularly Maharashtra and Gujarat. [1] Founded by Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920-2003), the movement emphasizes self-study (swadhyaya), selfless devotion and application of Indian scriptures such as the Upanishads and Bhagavad gita for spiritual, social and economic liberation.
The Upanishads (/ ʊ ˈ p ʌ n ɪ ʃ ə d z /; [1] Sanskrit: उपनिषद्, IAST: Upaniṣad, pronounced [ˈupɐniʂɐd]) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" [2] and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.
Following is the list of recipients of Yuva Puraskar for their works written in English. The award comprises a cash prize of Rs . 50,000 and an engraved copper plaque. [ 1 ]
The Ten Principal Upanishads is an English version of the Upanishads translated by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats and the Indian-born mendicant-teacher Shri Purohit Swami.The translation process occurred between the two authors throughout the 1930s and the book was published in 1938; it is one of the final works of W. B. Yeats.
The Sahitya Akademi awarded him the Yuva Puraskar for his book Lords of the Deccan: Southern India From Chalukyas To Cholas in 2023. [1] The book won the Tata Literature Live's Book of the Year Award in the non-fiction category in 2022. [2] It is due to be adapted by Rana Daggubati into a web series titled Lord of the Deccan for SonyLIV. [3]
Purohit is known in the West principally for his work on translations of major Hindu texts. During his state visit in June 2023 to the US, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi presented the Bidens with a first edition print of the book The Ten Principal Upanishads (1937), translated from Sanskrit by Purohit Swami and Yeats. [2]
The book was reviewed in the magazine Newsweek in 1954, soon after it was first published. [1] The reviewer stated that "The Principal Upanishads"... have now been nicely translated by Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Asia's foremost contemporary philosopher, a man as well-versed in Jewish and Christian theology as he is in the cults and culture of the East....
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