I said once that “The Child-Widow” was my most facile translation. Well, the translation of this poem’s first stanza was almost as facile. While the rest of the translation took time – a fair amount of which was spent understanding the purport of stanzas 2 and 3 – I’m glad I got there in the end. There are a few things about the poem (and the translation) I’d like to share, but I’ll leave them for the Afterword (below). For now, here is the translated poem.
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Da Ra Bendre in English 
Just beautiful 🙏
I myself wanted to translate after I fell in love with it .. but looking at the hardwork you put in I guess there can be no match…like u said,the last two lines are challenging….and you have done a great job 😊
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Thank you very much, Priya! 🙂
I’m very glad you liked it and grateful that you chose to write and tell me you liked it. That rarely happens. So – thank you. 🙂
Yes, the last two lines aren’t easy (to translate or understand), but it was the penultimate line that first drew me to the poem. ‘ತಿರುತಿರುಗಿಯು ಹೊಸತಾಗಿರಿ’ is the name of a book by G. Krishnappa.
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Yeah I am aware now… accidentally bumped into to ur translation while I was trying to find out what ತಿರುತಿರುಗಿ ಯು ಹೊಸತಾಗಿರಿ was about…😊
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