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The current paper deals with the myriad facets of challenges encountered by a translator not only within a multilingual country like India but also in transgressing national boundaries to present the native essence of a text to the global audience. The major problem that apparently overwhelms a translator in the voyage of translation is the creation of an ambiguity. This lack of clarity is the aftermath of a search for the best-suited and precise or apt vocabulary that sustains the cultural flavour and uniqueness in which the text is born. The very title of the novel in discussion 'Samskara' hosts an array of meanings in Indian philosophy. To imbibe or inculcate the most suitable concept from the gamut provided by the original text is a matter of discernment. Language is embedded deep in the collective consciousness of a people held together by numerous binding factors like culture, region, history or other common criteria distinguishing them from another particular group. A certain language is entrenched or entangled in the collective psyche of a people to an extent that in the literature of that region animals too tend to speak in the same language. This present paper tends to effectively deal with the different dynamics that come into the picture as soon as the journey of translation begins. U.R.Anamtha Murthy's 'Samskara' has been rendered to be his magnum opus. Authored in 1965 and largely remaining confined in its consumption, it was translated to English by A.K.Ramanujan in 1976 which gained global readership for the novel.