In the translator's workshop: a poem from the "Subhāsitaratnakosha"

A brief extra piece to start this week: this is a copy of an essay commissioned last year for the ‘in the translator’s workshop’ feature in Marginalia Review of Books. It discusses my translation of a single short poem written in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, by a woman called Śīlabhattārikā sometime before around 1100. Sanskrit, like Latin…