Splendour of fire : ink and watercolour © Nicola Dixon

Digitally modified by Usha Kishore

May fire enlighten my speech

speech enlighten the heart

and heart enlighten me

that I may enlighten the eternal

and may the eternal enlighten all eternity

  

  ( Laghunyasa, Taittiriya Brahmana III 10.8  – Trans. from the Sanskrit, Usha Kishore)

Usha translates from the Sanskrit and Hindi

  • Excerpts from Kamayani –  (the Hindi epic by Jai Shankar Prasad), Dec 2025 – CLICK HERE
  • Excerpts from Sharad –  Kalidasa, Life and Legends, 2018 – CLICK HERE
  • Excerpts from Kalidasa and Sankara, Muse India, 2018  – CLICK HERE
  • Excerpts from Kamayani (the Hindi epic by JaiShankar Prasad), Feb 2017 –   CLICK HERE 
  • Rithu Poetry, 2015
  • Kavya Bharati, 2014
  • Excerpts from Greeshma  – Kalidasa , Muse India, 2013
  • Fire, UK, 2007
  • South Asian Review, UK 2007
  • Kritya, 2006

Usha ‘s poetry has been translated into German, Spanish and Gujurati, Manx Gaelic and Turkish.

Translating the Divine Woman