Robert Philip Goldman (born 1942)Entry
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at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the

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Robert Goldman wins World Sanskrit Award for 2017
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9 & 10 September 2009, at sici.org. Retrieved 15 October 2017. He is also the winner of the Sanskrit Award for 2017 by the Indian Council on Cultural Relations (ICCR) as well as a Fellow of the

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Biography

Early life and education

Goldman was born in 1942. He went to the Columbia College and obtained the

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degree in 1964. He also received Ph.D. from the

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in 1971.

Career

Goldman is notable for his English translation of the Rāmāyaṇa published by Princeton University Press in 7 volumes between 1990 and 2019. His co-translators on the work included Sheldon I. Pollock, Rosalind Lefeber, Barend A. van Nooten, and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman.

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UC BerkeleyRobert Goldman sings from the Ramayana
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Famous Ramayana epic now in modern English
Published on 17 Nov 2016 {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldman, Robert P. American Indologists American Sanskrit scholars Sanskrit–English translators Translators of the Ramayana University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Living people 1942 births

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