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 == History ==
-Not long after the creation of [[Sarkarverse]], Abhidevananda began posting articles on Prabhat Samgiita. And not long after that, Abhidevananda realized that the existing translations of Prabhat Samgiita required more work than the 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 the project, at a rate of roughly one song per day, is for sometime in 2031.
+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.
-As Abhidevananda's proficiency in Bengali improved, the translation work became more and more intense. Also the focus shifted gradually 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 (and increased) with the effort to find more appealing English expression.
+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 it seems that any time saved in translation from Bengali to English was absorbed into the effort to find more appealing English expression.
 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. Finally, in 2016, Abhidevananda began publishing his 50-volume series of books on Prabhat Samgiita, appearing on both [http://tinyurl.com/hb7t7lr Amazon.com] and [http://amrevolution.org/ps/ AmRevolution.org].