Cultural Translation of Vamshavriksha, A Translated Novel of S.L. Bhyrappa

The present paper emphasises on the concept of cultural-translation which is emerging as an inevitable part of modern India. Today one may not think culture in terms of national culture, but in terms of world culture. In this context the translated works of S.L. Bhyrappa, one of the renowned Indian writers writing in Kannada deserves a critical evaluation. His novel Vamshavriksha is regarded to be one of the best early novels, deals with the problem of defender of traditional ethics, whose trust is traumatised by an inadvertent discovery about his birth. The novel is rendered into English by K. Raghavendra Rao with the title The Upischolar_mained which has been widely accepted by English readers abroad and Readers in English at home. The paper analyses how translator's competency is able to catch various modern elements interwoven in Vamshavriksha like language, cultural anthropology, intellectual humour, myth, architecture, economics, history, literature, media, music, philosophy, religion and sociology. These elements are interspersed in the texture of the novel though not categorized separately.