From: "Peter Levine"
To: "Joseph Langevin"
Sent: Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 1:00 AM
Subject: Re: Editing Srila Prabhupada’s Books By Narasimha das
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:12 PM Joseph Langevin
Editing Srila Prabhupada’s BooksBy Narasimha das
Before Srila Prabhupada’s first revised editions of Srimad-Bhagavatam were complete, we used to study and have classes from Srila Prabhupada’s India editions of the first three cantos. The devotees loved these editions, even though it seemed they were “irregularly composed” and contained some obvious typos. We thought Srila Prabhupada’s English was exotic and beautifully poetic, but perhaps dated or influenced by British prose from the 1800s. We later learned that these editions were edit
