Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t18.35

v2.c10.s2.t18.35

Meanwhile, there is another Chinese version of *Meghaduta* that is important but less known. In 1957, a Chinese expert on Sanskrit named Xu Fancheng published a Chinese translation of *Meghaduta* in Pondicherry (now Puducherry). He adopted an original style by “composing his own poems on the basis of original meanings and adding or deleting something”, while he used a traditional Chinese five-character or seven-character form.