Reportaż z pola bitwy. Jak przekładać opisy bitwy w Mahabharacie

Report from the Battlefield: How to Translate Battle Descriptions in Mahābhārata This article discusses problem of scene construal translation, based on a selected description battle Mahābhārata. It is an old Indian epic (c. 400 BCE–400 CE), greatest mankind 100,000 stanzas), composed Sanskrit, most likely orally, and certainly distributed this way. Its main theme war between related families. In Indology, descriptions battles have been treated as conventional because their orality, however, closer analysis shows well- thought-out structure. The examples zooming-in/out strategy (Langacker 2005) one methods active building. I show how authors construed doubly dynamic scenes which both content (i.e. fight) itself dynamic, reflecting narrator’s movement. also discuss difficulties it presents Polish translator consider extent inflection allows for similar construal, thus meeting translation requirements proposed by Tabakowska (1993). My hypothesis that many cases such can be successfully reflected Polish, opposed English (Cherniak 2008–9), preserving extraordinary value original.