印度是东方文明古国之一,印度又是我国的近邻,中印两国文化交流的历史已逾千年,并对两国政治、经济、文化等的发展产生了巨大影响。但是,长期以来这种交流主要限于宗教等领域,很少涉及文学范畴,正如茅盾在新中国成立不久召开的全国文学翻译工作会议的报告(题为《为发展文学翻译事业和提高翻译质量 India is one of the ancient civilizations in the East and India is also a neighbor of China. The cultural exchanges between China and India have been going through more than a thousand years and have had a tremendous impact on the political, economic and cultural development of the two countries. However, this exchange has for a long time been confined mainly to the fields of religion and rarely to the areas of literature. Just as Mao Tun’s report on the work of national literary translation meeting held shortly after founding of New China (titled "To Develop Literary Translation and Improve Translation Quality