Thanks to the requests of the multi-talented Dr. Chandana Sri over at Twitter, I took up the challenge of translating William Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 to Kannada. This is an intriguing and enigmatic sonnet with multiple interpretations discussed by many scholars, so I'm not going into the details of those interpretations with no scholarly background for the same. Here's the attempt to translate it to Kannada though, where attempts to stick to its original rhyming scheme had to be given up mostly, and also my initial thoughts of ensuring dwitIyAkShara prAsa in Kannada had to be set aside too, while only ensuring it for lines 9-14. The whole write up is in the form 5/5/5/3, so that it could match the last line that was already translated by Dr. Chandana as "ಕೊಳೆತ ನೈದಿಲೆ ನಾತ ಕಳೆಗಿಂತ ಕೀಳು" So, in essence, it was an exercise in samasyApUraNa! ನೋಯಿಸುವ ಬಲವಿದ್ದು ನೋಯಿಸದ ಜನರು ಗೋಚರಿಪ ಲಕ್ಷಣವ ದಿಟ ಮಾಡದವರು ಇತರರಂ ಕದಲಿಪರು ತಾವು ಕಲ್ಲಾಗಿ ಜಡವಾಗಿ, ಸೆಟೆದಿರ್ದು, ಸೆಳೆತ...