Spiced with bits of gossip, fun- frolic and subtle romance, the story is actually that of deceit and dare. What follows is an adventurous journey through the realms of the Chola Kingdom. He is on a secret mission for the Crown Prince of the Chola Kingdom. A legendary piece of literature, Ponniyin Selvan ‘Ponni’s Beloved’ is Part One of five parts of the English translation of Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Tamil Classic ‘Ponniyin Selvan.’ It has as its protagonist Vandiya Devan a young soldier who belongs to the brave warrior race of Vanars. The paper is not intended to evaluate the translation but to understand the strategies adopted by the translator for the successful translation of the historic novel Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil into English. The present study is based on Indra Neelamggham’s English version of Ponniyin Selvan. Another English version of Kalki’s Ponniyin selvan has been rendered by H.Subhalakshmi Narayanan in 2016. The Part first of Ponniyin Selvan is translated into English by Indra Neelameggham in 1990. It has just the right mixture of all things that makes an epic – political intrigue, conspiracy, betrayal, huge dollops of romance, infidelity, seduction, passion, alluring women, unrequited love, sacrifice and pure love. Many authors have written phenomenal books in Tamil literature after Kalki Krishnamurthy, but Ponniyin Selvan remains the most popular, widely-read novel. Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Ponniyin Selvan is a masterpiece that has enthralled generations of Tamil readers. Some of them are Sivakamiyin Sabadam, Partipan Kanavu, and Ponniyin Selvan.

The writer Kalki is known for writing historically based novels in Tamil.

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