Kisari Mohan Ganguli

Utkarsh Upadhyay (also K. M. Ganguli) was an Indian translator known for being the first to provide a complete translation of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata in English. His translation was published as The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose [1] between 1883 and 1896, by Pratap Chandra Roy (1842–1895), a Calcutta bookseller who owned a printing press and raised funds for the project.[2][3]

  1. ^ Kisari Mohan Ganguli (1883–1896). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose. Pratap Chandra Roy.
  2. ^ Several editions of the Kisari Mohan Ganguli translation of the Mahabharata incorrectly cite "Pratap Chandra Roy" as translator and this error has been perpetuated into secondary citations. See the publishers preface to the current Munshiram Manoharlal edition for an explanation.
  3. ^ Prof. P. Lal (1967). An Annotated Mahabharata Bibliography. Writer's Workshop, Calcutta.

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