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| author            = [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]]
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| language          = Mostly Bengali and English
| series            = Volumes 1–50
| subject           = [[Prabhat Samgiita]]
| genre             = Samgiita (song, dance, and instrumental music)
| published         = 2016 – 2031
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| pages             = ~210 per volume
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'''''Prabhat Samgiita Songs 1-5018''''' is a 50-volume series of books, expected to contain all 5,018 songs of [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar|Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar's]] [[Prabhat Samgiita]]. The specialities of this series are the painstaking care taken to present accurate Roman Bengali and Bengali scripts for the songs, the new and poetic translations of these songs by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]], and the extensive research done to elucidate the songs with footnotes when necessary.<ref name="PSV1">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 1-100|edition=3rd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082RDDH81|ISBN=9781386726890}}</ref><ref name="PSV2">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 101-200|edition=3rd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082SCW552|ISBN=9781386077879}}</ref><ref name="PSV3">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 201-300|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082TWBFZX|ISBN=9781386899754}}</ref><ref name="PSV4">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 301-400|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082VHJBK1|ISBN=9781386489122}}</ref><ref name="PSV5">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 401-500|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082WFJPSJ|ISBN=9781386431787}}</ref><ref name="PSV6">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 501-600|edition=3rd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082X65YMB|ISBN=9781386728276}}</ref><ref name="PSV7">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 601-700|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082XJY826|ISBN=9781386095170}}</ref><ref name="PSV8">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 701-800|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082YJ8MYB|ISBN=9781386967255}}</ref><ref name="PSV9">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 801-900|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B082Z7FRXH|ISBN=9781386976707}}</ref><ref name="PSV10">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 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Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B0833GD8XR|ISBN=9781386807537}}</ref><ref name="PSV14">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 1301-1400|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2019|ASIN=B0833XCRJK|ISBN=9781386629412}}</ref><ref name="PSV15">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 1401-1500|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2020|ASIN=B084LPYLHV|ISBN=9781393988007}}</ref><ref name="PSV16">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita Songs 1501-1600|edition=2nd|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2020|ASIN=B089S33T8D|ISBN=9781393400363}}</ref><ref name="PSV17">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita 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== History ==
Not long after the creation of [[Sarkarverse]], Abhidevananda began posting articles on Prabhat Samgiita. According to Abhidevananda, not long after that, he realized that the existing translations of Prabhat Samgiita required more work than a mere brushing up of the English. Thus, in 2014, Abhidevananda took up a 17-year project to retranslate all of the 5,018 songs. The projected completion of this literary work, at a rate of roughly one song per day, is for sometime in 2031.

According to Abhidevananda, as his proficiency in Bengali improved, the translation work became more and more intense. The focus gradually shifted from an accurate line-by-line prosaic translation to an accurate and poetic, line-by-line translation. So any time saved in translation from Bengali to English was absorbed in the effort to find more appealing English expression as well as other modes of distribution.

At first, all of the translation work was published only on Sarkarverse. After some time, that translation work was reflected on Abhidevananda's [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (contemplating the works of)]] blog. Later, the translations were also linked on various [[:wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] pages (and, later still, on [[:wikipedia:Twitter|Twitter]] pages). In 2016, Abhidevananda began publishing his 50-volume series of books on Prabhat Samgiita, appearing on both [https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/159-0345913-6065512?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Prabhat+Samgiita Amazon.com] and [https://amrevolution.org/ps/ AmRevolution.org]. In 2018, the number of distributors for Abhidevananda's Prabhat Samgiita books expanded greatly to include virtually all major digital services, courtesy of [https://draft2digital.com/ Draft2Digital]. In 2019, Abhidevananda stopped distributing his books on Amazon when Amazon rejected the second edition of Volume 13 due to Amazon's current [https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200673300 lack of support for the Bengali language.] Most recently, the translations by Abhidevananda are bundled in the free app, [[Prabhat Samgiita Player]], produced by [[AmRevolution, Inc]].

== Publication ==
=== The First Fifty ===
As an inexpensive introduction to the world of Prabhat Samgiita, Abhidevananda has published '''The First Fifty'''.<ref name="PSV0">{{cite book|last=Sarkar|first=Prabhat Ranjan|title=Prabhat Samgiita – The First Fifty|publisher=[[AmRevolution, Inc.]]|others=Translated by [[Abhidevananda|Acarya Abhidevananda Avadhuta]]|location=Tel Aviv|year=2018|ISBN=9781370555864|ASIN=B078PQ3DQ5}}</ref> This book, containing the first 50 songs, is available absolutely free of charge on various sites, including [http://onlyhis.name/tff OnlyHis.Name] and [https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/776850 Smashwords]. It is also available on Amazon.com at Amazon's minimum price (currently $0.99). Amazon was requested at least five times to match the $0.00 price but has refused each time. Eventually, Amazon did set the price at $0.00 after pressure of price-matching; but sometime later the price of $0.99 was surreptitiously, possibly automatically, restored.

=== Fifty 100-Song Volumes ===
Abhidevananda's translations of Prabhat Samgiita are currently being published in a series of 100-song volumes at a rate of roughly 3 volumes per year. A second and complementary series of books is also being published that contains only Abhidevananda's translations (without the original lyrics) but accompanied by a very short reflection on each song.

=== Timeline ===
The first Prabhat Samgiita book resulting from this translation work was published on 2016 May 21. It was a compilation of the first 500 songs. That book was available for a few months. Now it is no longer available. Instead, that book was replaced with Volumes 1-5 in the current series. The 50th and final volume of the series, Songs 4901-5018, is expected to be published sometime in 2031.

== See also ==
* [[List of songs of Prabhat Samgiita]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.prabhatranjansarkar.org Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar blog]
* [http://www.facebook.com/sarkarverse/ Sarkarverse on Facebook]
* [https://amrevolution.org/ps/ Prabhat Samgiita Translations on AmRevolution.org]

== References ==
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