27 juin 2023
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Battistin Sebastiani Breno, « Gandhi on Solon and Croesus. Inquiry into a transcultural reception of Herodotus », Ausonius Éditions, ID : 10670/1.xgvsf1
Introduction Between February 24 and November 27, 1926, at Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad, India, Gandhi withdrew from mass political activity and devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into his native Gujarati. Probably like his original listeners, today Gandhi’s readers in search for spiritual guidance are also used to find inspired pages full of a half-Christian eclecticism – the word “God”, for example, is recurrent – that helps to put the verses from th...