Pramadvura : in Mahabharata, wife of Ruru, mother of the Rishi Sunaka.
... Complete Narrative Poems Collected Poems A Note on Love and Death The story of Ruru and Pramadvura–I have substituted a name more manageable to the English tongue–her death in the forest by the snake and restoration at the price of half her husband's life is told in the Mahabharata. It is a companion legend to the story of Savitri but not being ...
... he adds: "I never wrote anything with such ease and rapidity before or after." 23 The story is taken from the Mahabharata, Adi Parva, but Sri Aurobindo has changed the name of the heroine from Pramadvura to Priyumvada. The story has its affiliations also with the Hellenic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. But Sri Aurobindo has transformed the original tale, and Love and Death sweeps on its course ...
... Page 341 papers and dating itself to about 1919 by referring to Love and Death, a work of 1899, as having been "written a score of years ago"-runs: "The story of Ruru and Pramadvura—I have substituted a name [Priyumvada] more manageable to the English tongue —her death in the forest by the snake and restoration at the price of half her husband's life is told in the Mahabharata ...
... of death; immortal Pollux 8 spends half his time in Hades in order that his twin Castor who was dead might return to life; Ruru 9 sacrifices half of the life-span allotted to him and his wife Pramadvura revives with this half. Mythical man has sometimes pondered that if the life upon earth is indeed brief and one has to pass willy-nilly to the other world, cannot one possibly circumvent ...
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