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Incidentally, it is a matter of some debate whether Bhartṛhari the philosopher and Bhartṛhari the poet are the same person or two (or more, in the case of the anthology of verses). Oral tradition holds them to be the same person, scholars have debated back and forth. I have a collection of the poems here: https://shreevatsa.net/bhartrhari/web/ (will clean it up someday)

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Nice.

I have the A.N.D.Haksar, Purohit Gopinath translations of all the Satakas and Swami Madhavananda's translation of the "Vairagya Shatakam". Need to get the others ;-)

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486845

I couldn't add the Haksar translation as it's still under copyright, but the site has the other two. Plan to add others like M. R. Kale's (https://github.com/shreevatsa/bhartrhari/issues/11) — just need a chunk of time one of these weekends.

One thing you might want to add after each author's name is which categories (viz. Niti, Shringara and Vairagya) they have translated. Due to excessive prudishness many have omitted the Shringara satakam which is quite silly (this is what makes him "Human"). I got the Haksar and Gopinath editions specifically because they include all three categories. A.N.D.Haksar in particular has translated many of the works in Sanskrit literature into easy English (including the Kama Sutra) and does not censor anything.

Also i suggest that you add author names of all known translations of the work whether you have access to their actual text or not (due to copyright etc. reasons). That way your site can be a one-stop portal to Bhartrhari's Sataka-Trayam.

PS: In case you don't already know of it; there is a much larger work in the Tamil language named Tirukkural which is also divided into three similar categories (viz. Aram, Porul and Kamam) the whole having a total of 1330 couplets (133 chapters of 10 couplets each). There are many English translations available of which the original Penguin edition titled "Kural" translated by P.S.Sundaram is pretty good and done in the original couplet style. For a more detailed study see the 2-vol translation with commentary by S.M.Diaz.

Tirukkural - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kural

Tirukkural translations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirukkural_translations

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