ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Until her death in 1993, Barbara Stoler Miller was Samuel R. Milbank Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. A leading translator of Sanskrit literature and well versed in Indian music and art, Dr. Miller edited and translated numerous works of poetry and drama. Her translations include Love Song of the Dark Lord, a verse translation and study of the medieval Indian religious erotic poem Gitagovinda, and Yoga: Discipline of Freedom, a translation of the Yoga Sutra attributed to Patanjali. Dr. Miller studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Barnard College and held a doctorate in Sanskrit and Indic studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Barnard for twenty-five years.