She stated that William acknowledged paternity of the boy, Paul Buck, who was born in San Francisco in 1958, but was seeking monthly child support payments. In 1961, he was sued for paternity by Jane Hammer Buck, who had lived with Buck “ as husband and wife” in Bolinas, California, for six years. īuck’s translations have been praised by Levi Asher and others. My method in writing both Mahabharata and Ramayana was to begin with a literal translation from which to extract the story, and then to tell that story in an interesting way which would preserve the spirit and flavor of the original.
He began to study Sanskrit, and to make his own translations. He discovered that a proposed 11-volume Indian publication of Mahabharata was at risk for lack of funds, and subsidized it. Īccording to the publisher’s preface to the 2012 republication of Buck’s translations of Mahabharata and Ramayana, Buck was in 1955 inspired by reading a 19th-century translation of Bhagavad Gita, in a state library in Carson City, Nevada. After her husband’s death, she moved back to Vacaville, California with William and his younger sister Carol Franc Buck, who grew up at the family’s mansion at 225 Buck Ave. His mother, Eva Benson Buck, was born to Swedish parents and was Buck’s second wife. He was a member of the wealthy Buck family of Marin County, California. A translation of Harivamsa was unfinished at his death.īuck was born in Washington, D.C., one of six children of U.S. William Benson Buck (Ap– August 26, 1970) was an American writer who produced novelized translations into English of the Sanskrit epic poems Mahabharata and Ramayana.
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Vacaville, Solano County, California, United States The Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Mystique of William Buck () William Benson Buck His wife, Jane Hamner Buck also died young as did his father. “I believe he was a very early bohemian in the San Francisco scene. This might be the spiritual base that Beryl Buck wanted applied to her establishment of the Buck Foundation that should give me a grant for my Bohemian newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press. Here is William Buck, the son of Frank Buck, who translated two books that Ram Dass endorses.