Winner of the 1995 Translation Prize of the National Academy of Letters, India

The Cilappatik¯aram is to Tamil what the Iliad and Odyssey are to Greek - its importance would be difficult to overstate. . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)

A fine, luminous translation of an Indian classic. It is a poet's translation. Parthasarathy's poetic skills are everywhere in evidence, yet guided by his sensitive scholarship and fidelity. (A. K. Ramanujan, University of Chicago)

The Cilappatikaram is to Tamil what the Iliad and Odyssey are to Greek--its importance would be difficult to overstate . . . This is an extraordinary accomplishment. (George L. Hart, University of California, Berkeley)