Madra : kingdom of Mādra; Sāvitri’s father Ashwapati was a king of Mādra.
... story thus turns out to be a fruitful device; by it the higher truth is made to us somewhat comprehendible. The story belongs to the early Vedic times. Aswapati, the king of Madra land, is issuless. He desires to have a son to perpetuate his ancestral line. In that way would the continuity of the Vedic Yajna be assured. Therefore it becomes an aspect of dharmic duty and Aswapati... She 6 Ibid., p. 383. 7 The Mother, SABCL, Vol.25,p.23. takes birth as a radiant daughter,— kanyd tejasvini as Vyasa puts it. She keeps on coming as the princess of Madra, the daughter of the timeless king Aswapati. For, hers is an eternal birth which is also the birth in eternal Time. Thus the fascinating Story of Savitri is actually an unfolding Story of the Eternal... Grace. A "world's desire" has to rise to bring her birth amongst us. This is done, again, by the Supreme himself, coming here as the Son of Force. He comes here as eternal Aswapati, as the king of Madra in the Land of Tapasya. He does intense Yoga-Sadhana in the Earth-consciousness. He discerns the "wide world-failure's cause" and offers his prayer to the supreme Goddess to mission down a living form ...
... new Yuga, a new world-order was ushered in. Rishi Markandeya holds the same promise, perhaps even a more splendid promise, in the Savitri-example he prefers to give to Yudhishthira. The Princess of Madra King Aswapati's daughter, had suffered greatly for her husband's sake and had won noble satisfying boons, including the exceptional boon of Satyavan's life, from Yama the King-Father Lord himself. ... Literature MacDonell writes: "In the story of Savitri we have one of the finest of the many ideal female characters which the older epic poetry of India has created. Savitri, daughter of Asvapati, king of Madra, chooses as her husband Satyavan, the handsome and noble son of a blind and exiled king, who dwells in a forest hermitage. Though warned by the sage Narada that the prince is fated to live but a single... The manner of introducing Aswapati makes it subtly clear that there is some issue involved about which we should be deeply concerned. From the very word "go!" the tone is set: Long ago in Madra there reigned a saintly king, devout and a follower of the dharma; he lived in the pious company of the Brahmins and of the great virtuous, and he was united with the truth, and had conquered the senses ...
... world-order was ushered in. Rishi Markandeya holds the same promise, perhaps even a more splendid promise, in the Savitri-example he prefers to give to Yudhishthira. The Princess of Madra, King Aswapati's daughter, had suffered greatly for her husband's sake and had won noble satisfying boons, including the exceptional boon of Satyavan's life, from Yama the King-Father Lord himself... MacDonell writes: "In the story of Savitri we have one of the finest of the many ideal female characters which the older epic-poetry of India has created. Savitri, daughter of Asvapati, king of Madra, chooses as her husband Satyavan, the handsome and noble son of a blind and exiled king, who dwells in a forest hermitage. Though warned by the sage Narada that the prince is fated to live but a single... introducing Aswapati makes it subtly clear that there is some issue involved about which we should be deeply concerned. From the very word "go!" the tone is set in Vyasa's Savitri: Long ago in Madra there reigned a saintly king, devout and a follower of the dharma; he lived in the pious company of the Brahmins and of the great virtuous, and he was united with the truth, and had conquered the ...
... seven sections, the little heroic poem has metrical power to win back Page 524 the Word of Truth from the inconsiderate and suffocating darkness of Death. Savitri the Princess of Madra is of course the most important character in the story. The other persons present are: Savitri's parents Aswapati and Malawi; then, there is the heavenly sage Narad who pays a purposeful visit to Aswapati... beautiful wife with all the exquisite qualities of a high-bom virgin; Savitri too is joyous that her heart's desire has been so well fulfilled. {shloka 3:17) The marriage-party leaves for Madra and Savitri adapts herself to the life of the hermitage. She looks after the physical needs of her parents-in-law, speaking always to them with a sense of humility and reverence. She also performs,... marriage and, though apparently tragic, makes it firm. There is no doubt that it was for this purpose that he had undertaken the long and arduous journey from his home in Paradise to Aswapati's palace at Madra on the banks of the Alacananda, a difficult process by which the spiritual becomes the earthly substantial. Narad is one of those very few who can move freely in all the worlds and can also take a human ...
... within as he returned to the Master's room and, when asked if he had prayed for money, was startled. 30 In our epic also we find that Aswapati ha$ ceased to think of his own dynasty, his Madra kingdom, his personal hegemony over a portion of the earth. After the yogic experiences he has been through, his vision has embraced all creation. He now addresses himself to the task of saving the... him anything since his Yoga cannot have been in vain. So she takes him back to the original intention when he had begun the tapasya. That was for the gift of a child to continue the racial line in Madra: My light shall be in thee, my strength thy force. Let not the impatient Titan drive thy heart, Ask not the imperfect fruit, the partial prize. 38 See The Hour of God, SABCL ...
... O King Yudhishthira, the most precious fortune, which the women of noble upbringing desire and cherish, that is what Princess Savitri won for them all. Page 2 Long ago in Madra there reigned a saintly king, devout and a follower of the dharma; he lived in the pious company of the Brahmins and of the great virtuous, and he was united with the truth, and had conquered the senses... by your purity and chastity, by your abstinence and self-restraint, the observance of the rules of austerity, and all the heart with which you worshipped me in devotion. O Aswapati, Ruler of Madra, ask what you desire, the boon; falter not in any way, in performance of the duties of the dharma Page 4 Aswapati said: O Goddess, it was ...
... sylvan hermit-life"; there she can find a "resting chamber" fit for her. Savitri, shaking herself free from the magic web of his echoing voice, tells her name—"I am Savitri, Princess of Madra"—and asks in turn for his, and why he is content to abide in the forest's inaccessible solitudes. He tells his story too; he is Satyavan, the Shalwa King Dyumatsena's son—but a king no more, for he... human moment was eternal made". Now Satyavan leads Savitri to their future home, and calm and content possess her heart. But before she can rest in this felicity she needs must return to Madra and tell Aswapati the choice she has made. But she will return, nor ever again agree to part from Satyavan. So saying she mounts her car once more, and speeds "swift-reined, swift-hearted" towards her ...
... resented so strongly the attempt of Yudhisthere & Krishna to impose an empire on them? It is a significant fact that the Southern and Western peoples went almost solid for Duryodhana in this quarrel—Madra, the Deccan, Avanti, Sindhu Sauvira, Gandhara, in one long line from southern Mysore to northern Candahar; the Aryan colonies in the yet half civilised regions of the Lower valley of the Ganges espoused ...
... " said the rishi, "to a tale of ancient date, How Savitri loved and suffered, how she strove and conquered Fate!" II The Tale of Savitri In the country of fair Madra lived a king in days of old, Faithful to the holy Brahma, pure in heart and righteous-souled. He was loved in town and country, in the court and hermit's den, Sacrificer to the ...
... I sanction what my friend approves; All praise to Him, whom praise we owe; My child shall wed the youth she loves." Page 529 PART II Great joy in Madra. Blow the shell The marriage over to declare! And now to forest-shades where dwell The hermits, wend the wedded pair. The doors of every house are hung With gay festoons ...
... 375, 419, 426, 435, 455, 456-7, 477, 480, 481, 498, 540 Macdonald, George, 437 Macdonell, A. A., 65, 66, 128 Macco-Calingae, 165 Macedonian prefects, 195-200 Mādhava-gupta, 487 Madra, Madrakas/Madras, 162, 424, 426, 528, 573 Mādri (Vāhlīki), 528 'Maga', Magā, Magas, 'Maka', 'Makā', 268, 269, 276-77, 593 Maga Thogon, 277 Maga-Brāhmanas, 277 Magadha ...
... lore. Then arose Rishi Bhujyu of the Lahya family. He began with a rather amusing story. "Yajnavalkya," he said, "when in my student days I was travelling round the country, I happened to be in the Madra region once. 1 was the guest of a householder whose name was Patanjala. Patanjala had a daughter who was possessed by an evil spirit. We were familiar with this particular one - it was a Gandharva ...
... as manifested in life on earth. III THE LEGEND The story woven in this epic is based upon the Mahabharata (Aranyak Parva, Ch. 248). This is the story. Aswapathy, the king of Madra, was childless. In order to have a child he resorted to austerities and a life of celibacy, fasting every sixth day. Simultaneously he performed a hundred thousand sacrifices. After a period of these ...
... "her heart's future home". Then Savitri told Satyavan that she would go to her father and come back to him; "my heart will stay here" she said. She then mounted her chariot and sped back towards Madra. All along the way the memory of her "soul's temple and home" remained with her, as "her heart's constant scene". Page 289 ...
... is "in his secret soul". Even what is suffering to us,—"our ordeal,"—"is the hidden spirit's choice". What Savitri's heart had chosen was all being fulfilled. Once more she left her own country, Madra, and travelled to Shalwa hermitage. As she travelled not only the country but even "the past receded and the future neared". She left behind all familiar places, relations and friends. From populous ...
... common enough occurrence though always compact of wonder and romance; how much more so when the girl is Savitri! Savitri is a king's daughter. Her father Aswapati rules over the land of Madra, as rich and variegated in its landscape as in its spiritual 'inscape', the home of beauty and grace, of reverie and trance. An ideal background for the fostering of the "incarnate Flame" that is Savitri: ...
... leaving the body. Sri Aurobindo called Savitri ‘a legend and a symbol.’ The legend is a story from the Mahabharata that briefly summarized goes as follows: Savitri, daughter of King Aswapati of Madra, chooses Satyavan, son of King Dyumatsena of Shalwa, for her husband. Satyavan lives in the forest to which his blind father has been exiled by a usurper; there Savitri meets him and falls in love with ...
... ministry of an auspice-hour Heart-bound before the sun, their marriage fire, The wedding of the eternal Lord and Spouse Took place again on earth in human forms. 42 On her return to Madra to report her choice, it is Narad's intervention that opens Aswapati's eyes — and Savitri's own — to the precise nature of the encounter ahead. Narad's warning is thus no warning at all, but merely ...
... Righteousness. The word dharma has the sense of the inner law of conduct natural to one's soul and one's spiritual build-up, one's swabhāva , becoming. In the story Savitri the princess of Madra is of course the most important character. The other persons present are: Savitri's father Aswapati and mother Malawi; then, there is the heavenly sage Narad who pays a purposeful visit to Aswapati ...
... story, narrated (in the Mahabharat) by the sage Markandeya to Yudhishthira, when the Pandavas remained in exile in the forest. The story runs thus: In days of yore there was a virtuous king in Madra, named Aswapati; he had no issue to inherit his throne and kingdom. With the purpose of getting sons bom to him, he propitiated goddess Savitri — the wedded partner of Brahma — and performed tapasya ...
... Savitri - Part 1 The Yoga of Savitri The Finding of the Soul The Finding of the Soul -1- After her marriage with Satyavan, Savitri leaves Madra and travels to the hermitage at Shalwa and takes charge of the blind king, Dyumtlsena, and the queen. In the new surroundings, which seemed quite heavenly to her, she commenced a new life in the company ...
... years of association with it, after the editors of the Revised Edition started insisting on “its” instead of “his”. I wonder, however, if “human house in Time” conveys the sense of Aswapati’s palace in Madra on the banks of Alacananda. But we are not going into that detail. Let us take another beautiful example, describing Savitri who will be born as Aswapati’s daughter to face the issue of this terrestrial ...
... Grace. A "world's desire" has to rise to bring her birth amongst us. This is done, again, by the Supreme himself, coming here as the Son of Force. He comes here as eternal Aswapati, as the king of Madra in the Land of Tapasya. He does intense Yoga-Sadhana in the Earth-consciousness. He discerns the "wide world-failure's cause" and offers his prayer to the supreme Goddess to mission down a living ...
... Savitri's Firm Decision to Marry Satyavan. Markandeya said: O Yudhishthira, on one particular occasion, afterwards, the King, the ruler of the Madra country, was in the company of Narad; seated in the royal Hall, he was engaged in conversation with him. Then, about the same time Savitri, after visiting all the holy places and the cloistered ...
... gave birth to a hundred sons, enhancing her name and her glory hero-warriors as they were, they never retreated from the battlefields. In the same way her father Aswapati, the King of Madra, begot a hundred sons, true brothers to her from her mother Malawi; they too were mighty and great in strength. That is how Savitri had saved and upraised herself, and her father and mother ...
... Death-god, and got Satyavan back to live on the earth. 'Not that in it the authority of Fate, established from time immemorial, has been ignored or underestimated in any way. When Savitri returns to Madra after meeting Satyavan, "carrying the sanction of the gods/To her love and its luminous eternity," 48 she hears Narad speaking of doom "Who hunts unseen the unconscious lives of men": 41 Ibid ...
... which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine. 202 To return to the poem: in the first canto of 'The Book of Fate' we are back in the Madra kingdom. Savitri hasn't arrived in her father's palace yet, but towards this home of the royal seer, Aswapati, the divine seer, Narad, descends from the clouds: In silent bounds bordering ...
... II The Legend In the Mahabharata, the Savitri story is told in the course of seven cantos (291 to 297 in the Vana Parva). Aswapati, the King of the Madra, is pious, virtuous, high-souled, a good giver, the protector of his people, and therefore the well-beloved. But he is sorrow-stricken, being old and childless. For eighteen years he undergoes austerities ...
... lore. Then arose Rishi Bhujyu of the Lahya family. He began with a rather amusing story. "Yajnavalkya," he said, "when in my student days I was travelling round the country, I happened to be in the Madra region once. I was the guest of a householder whose name was Patanjala. Patanjala had a daughter who was possessed by an evil spirit. We were familiar with this particular one — it was a Gandharva. ...
... an auspice-hour Heart-bound before the sun, their marriage fire, The wedding of the eternal Lord and Spouse Took place again on earth in human forms:... 50 On her return to Madra to report her choice, it is Narad's intervention that opens Aswapathy's eyes - and Savitri's own - to the precise nature of the encounter ahead. Narad's warning is thus no warning at all, but merely ...
... of the epic. The past is mapped out in a sudden flashback, the future will be summed up later. The present is what matters, and the poem is concerned with it. Savitri, the princess of Madra and darling daughter of King Aswapati, has married the exiled King Dyumatsena's dear son, Satyavan. She is living in the forest with her husband and his elders, sharing uncomplainingly their austere ...
... made to transparent divine Light full of charm and happy peace, of murmurs of divine leaves responding to the tread of the Gods. CANTO TWO THE GROWTH OF THE FLAME THE land of Madra where Savitri lived was full of mountains — and "plains and giant rivers". It had besides "spiritual bush" which swallowed the din of life, it had an atmosphere of high Page 272 thoughts ...
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