Lallu Lal
Lallu Lal | |
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Born | 1763 British India |
Nationality | Indian |
Occupation(s) | College instructor, translator, author |
Notable work | Prem Sagar |
Lallu Lal (1763–1835) was an academic, author and translator from India. He was an instructor in the Hindustani language at Fort William College in Hastings, Calcutta. He is notable for Prem Sagar, the first work in modern literary Hindi.
Biography
Lallu Lal was born into a
Works
Lallu Lal's most notable translation is Prem Sagar (1804–1810), the earliest prose in
Lallu Lal's original work included The Grammar of Brij-bhasa (1811), in
In addition, he compiled Lataif-i-Hindi or The New Cyclopedia Hindoostanica of Wit (1810) in Urdu and Devanagari scripts. It is a collection of around 100 witty stories and anecdotes.[5]
Prem Sagar
Prem Sagar or Prem Sagur ("Ocean of Love") was one of the first modern
The earliest Hindustani language literature made heavy use of Persian words, and resembled modern Urdu. Lallu Lal was among the first writers to use words of Indo-Aryan origin in Hindustani language literature. His Prem Sagar is the earliest work, whose language resembles modern Sanskritized Hindi. Linguist Jules Bloch describes the importance of Lallu Lal's work as follows:[7]
Lallu Lal, under the inspiration of Dr. Gilchrist, changed all that by writing the famous Prem Sagar, whose prose portions are on the whole Urdu, from which Persian words have been throughout replaced by Indo-Aryan words… The new dialect gave a lingua franca to the Hindus.
— Jules Bloch
The book was inspired stylistically by the Caurāsī Vaiṣṇavan kī Vārtā, a 17th-18th century Braj Bhasha text written by Harirāy.[8]
References
- ^ Prem Sagar, Lullo Lal Kub, Sunscrit Press, Calcutta, 1810
- ^ Akbar Padamsee; Shamlal (1966). Western Influence in Bengali Literature. Vakil. p. 320.
- ISBN 978-0-19-547518-0.
- ^ George Abraham Grierson, ed. (1896). The Satsaiya of Bihari, with a Commentary Entitled the Lala-candrika, by Çri Lallu Lal Kavi. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta.
- ISBN 978-0-87586-437-2.
- ISBN 978-1-4655-8069-6.
- ^ "03misconceptions". 1 May 2023. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023.
- ^ Barz, Richard (2018). "Vallabha". In Jacobsen, Knut A.; Basu, Helene; Malinar, Angelika; Narayanan, Vasudha (eds.). Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online. Brill.
Bibliography
- The Prema-Sâgara or, Ocean of Love. Ed. by Frederick Pincoff. Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1891
- Théologie hindoue. Le Prem Sagar, océan d’amour. Traduit par Е. Lamairesse II., 1893, Saint-Amand, 1899
- The Prem Sagar in English. Allahabad, 1900
External links
- The Prem Sagur of Lallu Lal
- The Prem Sagur of Lallu Lal, translated into English by W. Hollings (1848)
- Lullov-Lal, The Prem Sagur or the history of Krishnu, according to tho tenth chapter of the Bhaguvut of Vyasudevu, transl. into Hindu from the Bruj Bhasha etc. Calcutta, 1842