Pururavas Pururavus : A Rig-Vedic hymn (X: 95) contains a dialogue between him & Urvasie. In later literature he is a son of Budha & Ilā, grandson of the Chandra, & reigns at Pratiśthāna. He is the hero of Kālidāsa’s Vikramorvasīyam.
... capable. Pururavus is made of very different material. He is a king and a hero, a man of high social & princely virtues, otherwise Kalidasa would not have taken the trouble to depict him; but these qualities are like splendid robes which his nature has put on, & which have become so natural to him that he cannot put them off if he would; they are not the naked essential man. The fundamental Pururavus is... his limit, his end might have been as great as his beginning. Pururavus in the play is equally fortunate; we feel throughout that the power & favour of the Gods is at his back to save him from all evil fortune and the limits of a legend help him as effectually as an early death helped Alexander. Kalidasa's presentation of Pururavus therefore is not that of a poetic nature in a false position working... slightly but not materially different.] 2 In one sense therefore the whole previous life of Pururavus has been a preparation for his meeting with Urvasie. He has filled earth & heaven even as he has filled his own imagination with the splendour of his life as with an epic poem, he has become indeed Pururavus, he who is noised afar; but he has never yet felt his own soul. Now he sees Urvasie and all ...
... sea of mighty joy Rushing and swallowing up the golden sand, With a great cry and glad Pururavus Seized her and caught her to his bosom thrilled, Clinging and shuddering. All her wonderful hair Loosened and the wind seized and bore it streaming Over the shoulder of Pururavus And on his cheek a softness. She o'erborne, Panting, with inarticulate murmers lay, ... breasts Tumultuous up against his beating heart, He kissed the glorious mouth of heaven's desire. So clung they as two shipwrecked in a surge. Page 67 Then strong Pururavus, with godlike eyes Mastering hers, cried tremulous: "O beloved, Omiser of thy rich and happy voice, One word, one word to tell me that thou lovest." And Urvasie, all broken on... my love!" Nor is Sri Aurobindo in his early twenties an expert only at giving us love's leaping and engulfing joy: he has an equally skilful hand in depicting love's large desolation. When Pururavus lost Urvasie he went searching for her across woods and streams to the mountains that had framed their first meeting. He did not linger on the inferior heights, But plunged o'er difficult gorge ...
... Came to the city of Pururavus, Air blazing far behind her till she paused. She over the palace of Pururavus Stood in shadow. Within the lights yet were; Still sat the princes and young poets sang On harps heroical of Urvasie And strong Pururavus, of Urvasie The light and lovely spirit golden-limbed, Son of a virgin strong Pururavus. "O earth made heaven to Pururavus! O heaven left earth... Ménaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Rumbha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya and Tilôttama,— Many delightful names; among them she. And seeing her Pururavus the king Shuddered as of felicity afraid, And all the wide heart of Pururavus Moved like the sea—when with a coming wind Great Ocean lifts in far expectancy Waiting to feel the shock, so was he moved By expectation of her face. For... Making my soul all colour? Surely I thought The hills would move and the eternal stars Deviate from their rounds immutable, Never Pururavus; yet lo! I fall. My soul whirls alien and I hear amazed The galloping of uncontrollable steeds. Men said of me: The King Pururavus Grows more than man; he lifts to azure heaven In vast equality his spirit sublime.' Why sink I now towards attractive earth? ...
... is without question authentic poetry. Pururavas, now in a mood of happy relaxation, happens to catch a glimpse of the apsaras basking in Dawn's unfolding immaculate loveliness, - and "among them she", the golden incomparable Urvasie - And seeing her Pururavas the king Shuddered as of felicity afraid, And all the wide heart of Pururavas Moved like the sea - when with a conning... note of warning, as pertinent today as K was when Pururavas faced the austere goddess and patroness of Aryasthan. But Pururavas wanders farther still, sights Coilas (Kailas) in the distance, receives benedictions from the Mother of the Aryans, and rising yet further sees the 'Mighty Mother herself on the peaks. The Mother knows that Pururavas, hero-man is sting away his high destiny on earth... to a victorious close, Pururavas the warrior-king now turns earthward, happy to breathe our mortal air, to drink into his soul the "virgin silence" of the mountains, to divine "his mother's breasts"; and he gazes into * The reader is referred to the present writer's long article "Urvasi" (Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, 1949) for a historical study of the Urvasi-Pururavas myth from Rig Veda and ...
... which Pururavus sees Urvasie. Pururavus's words here are not just a lover's idealising imagination running riot: together with it is the expression of the mythopoeic philosophy behind the Apsara-conception. The other passage 1 , designable The Man and the Nymph, goes to the heart of the matter. Yes, we see here the Goddess-function of Sri Aurobindo's heroine, but still only as felt by Pururavus and... movement of the heart, is bound to leave a good deal of man's destiny unfulfilled. The poem, however, does not abide mainly on the philosophic or ethical level, striking any complete balance of Pururavus's deeds: it depicts centrally the colour and the strength of a one-pointed love daring the seemingly impossible and achieving it. Urvasie contains a lot of allusions to mythology and legend ... World of Sri Aurobindo's Poetry, pp. 70-71 Page 340 —too many to be exhaustively dealt with. A couple may here be elucidated. In the passage somewhere towards the close, where Pururavus's ascent towards Urvasie is described, the verses— ... In thy line the Spirit Supreme Shall bound existence with one human form; In Mathura and ocean Dwarca Man Earthly perf ...
... somewhat similar theme. In Urvasie, the human hero Pururavas and the celestial nymph Urvasie come together, they are separated, and they come together again—and finally— when Pururavas is raised to the semi-divine status of a Gandharva. Not the death of Urvasie, but her withdrawal to heaven, causes the complication which is happily resolved when Pururavas too qualifies for life in that 'dream kingdom'... redemption through love, for nobler still than Pururavas and Ruru and their successful defiance of fate was the defiance of Death on Savitri's part and all that came afterwards. In the words of K.D.Sethna, In Urvasie as well as Love and Death there is that struggle against mortality and the fate which circumscribes mundane life. Pururavas scales an Overworld to clasp the vanished Urvasie;... s; not for personal enjoyment, But to the voice of Vedic litanies, Sacredly placed are the dread crowns of Kings . For bright felicities and cruel toils. 114 But no: Pururavas is "driven by a termless wide desire"; he can have no life without Urvasie. He gains his private felicity at last but at a heavy cost to his people and his kingdom: Then Love in his sweet ...
... Urvasie Read poem > Pururavas In one sense therefore the whole previous life of Pururavas has been a preparation for his meeting with Urvasie. He has filled earth and heaven, even as he has filled his own imagination with the splendour of his life as with an epic poem. He has become indeed Pururavas, he who is noised afar, but he has never yet felt his own ...
... between heaven and earth is possible if with heaven agreeing to come down upon earth, earth too on its side agrees to go up to heaven. The heavenly Bride can stay here on earth as companion to Pururavas only if Pururavas agrees to go up to heaven, consents to take up the gods' work. The earthly mixture presumably gives to the pure heavenly love a zest, a strange homely taste which otherwise it could not... turned into a soulless plant. Thirdly, the limitation that the very intensity and turbulence of passion bring – it is not only turbulence but turbidity, love gone mad, love becoming lunacy – that is Pururavas and his cry: ¹ Savitri, Book I, Canto I. Page 390 "Halt, ruffian, halt! Thou in thy giant arms Bearest away my Urvasie!.." ¹ This cry almost verges on King Lear's ...
... Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Incomplete Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1927-1947) Collected Poems Pururavus Pururavus from converse held with Gods On unseen crests of Nature high, occult, Traversed the tumult of the flame-tossed seas That cast their fire between the spirit's poles. Alone like a bright star twixt ...
... Page 15 Rushing and swallowing up the golden sand. With a great cry and glad, Pururavus Seized her and caught her to his bosom thrilled, Clinging and shuddering. All her .wonderful hair Loosened and the wind seized and bore it streaming Over the shoulder of Pururavus And on his cheek a softness. She o'erbome, Panting, with inarticulate murmurs lay, Like... emotional truth, which the word "tremulous" gives here: Then strong Pururavus, with godlike eyes Mastering hers, cried tremulous... In the final phrase that tells how Urvasie moaned out From her imprisoned breasts, "My lord, my love!" the four opening words suggest most intensely the close embrace of Pururavus, the deep heaving breath of Urvasie's pent-up emotion, the true impulse... and Death. The latter is maturer, more loaded with ore and moulded with a finer grip on the medium, but when we remember that it was in his early twenties Sri Aurobindo tackled the theme of King Pururavus, a mortal hero, making Urvasie, a nymph of heaven, his bride, we are inclined to ask whether any poet has been so young and Page 14 at the same time has struck such splendid chords ...
... characters and the characters in action have been so seized, the rest of the problem might prove easy of solution. The story is easily told. Pururavas, the vanquisher of the Titans, is smitten with love for Urvasie, a beautiful nymph (apsara); Pururavas is already married, and there are the usual complications; but there's a divinity that shapes our ends, and thus all is well at the end. One may... adorations, the fertile tears, the queer antics, and the blissful-cum-agonied ecstasies of Pururavas and Urvasie. And The Hero and the Nymph does succeed to a large extent in capturing and communicating the fever and the flavour and the elusive fascination of the original to English readers. Pururavas is a warrior and king, but in the play itself it is the lover and the poet that is in the... wide unblinking eyes. 72 But the play's real glory centres round the exquisite love drama of which Pururavas and Urvasie are the protagonists. They find and lose, and lose and find, themselves over and over again, and these alternations determine the general rhythm of the play. Pururavas, coming upon Urvasie as she stands, "her eyes closed in terror, supported on the right arm of Chitralekha" ...
... Another instance noted by Sri Aurobindo is a line from a passage in his own early blank-verse narrative, Urvasie. He was induced to make a comment on this passage which tells us how the hero-king Pururavus, searching far and wide for his lost beloved Urvasie, did not linger on the inferior heights But plunged o'er difficult gorge and prone ravine And rivers thundering between dim walls, ...
... परिचरणं कुर्वते .. शोभनफलकारी । श्वात्रेण क्षिप्रमथनेन पूर्वं .. अपरं eastern (Ahavaniya) .. western (Garhapatya) O Fire, thou madest heaven voiceful to man the mind of many cries (lit. toManu Pururavas); good his works but thou a worker of better things. When by pressure (?) thou art loosed abroad, the gods brought thee here the pristine and again the later fire. 5) त्वमग्ने वृषभः पुष्टिवर्धन ...
... Savitri's personality to grant a renewal of Satyavan's life. The gods are gods, after all, and they can amend inexorable fate itself. And men and women, too, could rise to—or be accorded—a divine status: Pururavas exceeded the human bounds, Rishi Vishvamitra's austerities enabled him to work wonders, including the creation of a new heaven, and Savitri was also able to effect a "change of heart" in Yama and ...
... Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found 17 Perfect thy motion ever within me 285 Poet, who first with skill inspired did teach 35 Pururavus from converse held with Gods 663 Pururavus from Titan conflict ceased 67 Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel 16 Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old 220 Rose, I have ...
... 400 PARIS, 171, 173 Pashupati, 179 Pawamana Soma, 330 Pharaohs, the, 264 Pindar, 278n - Olympian Odes, 278n Plato, 201, 297 Poseidon, 383 Prahlad, 183 Pururavas, 390-1 RADHA, 134-5, 183, 297 Rakshasa, 250 Ramakrishna, 85n, 379 Russia, 196 SAHARA, 141, 313 Sankhya, 182, 186, 279 Sarama, 330 Saraswati, 189 Sati, 184 Satyavan ...
... Other Earths 562 Outspread a Wave burst 652 Parabrahman 216 Perfect thy motion 285 Perigone Prologuises 189 Phaethon 42 The Pilgrim of the Night 603 Pururavus 663 Radha's Appeal 32 Radha's Complaint in Absence 32 The Rákshasas 321 Rebirth 213 Reflections of Srinath Paul 267 Reminiscence 203 Renewal 580 ...
... figures of drama. Kalidasa was both an epic poet and a dramatist, yet Sheva and Parvatie are merely grand paintings while Dushyanta, Shacountala, Sharngarava, Page 170 Priyumvada & Anasuya, Pururavus and Urvasie and Chitraleqha, Dharinie and Iravatie and Agnimitra are living beings who are our friends, whom we know. The difference arises from the importance of speech in self-revelation and the ...
... the womb his father's personality, greatness and ascetic energy. Chyavan too became an instructor and former of historic minds and a father of civilization; Ayus was among his pupils, the child of Pururavas by Urvasie and founder of the Lunar or Ilian dynasty whose princes after the great civil wars of the Mahabharata became Emperors of India. Chyavan's son Pramati, by an Apsara or nymph of paradise... inhabitants save a few savage tribes, the scattered beginnings of nations. Accordingly the story is set in times when earth was yet new to her children, and the race was being created by princes like Pururavas and patriarchal sages or Rishies like Bhrigou, Brihuspati, Gautama. The Rishi was in that age the head of the human world. He was at once sage, poet, priest, scientist, prophet, educator, scholar ...
... version—or one as good— in English. The prose patches are racy, and the blank verse is supple, full of modulations, and proves equal to the demands made upon it by Kalidasa. The scene in which the hero, Pururavas, moves distraught because of separation from Urvasie, is a prolonged improvisation, and there are echoes of Lear in the storm-scene: Page 46 No, I must permit ... both poems, love that dares everything, and sacrifices everything (except itself). Kshatriya or Brahmin, love is the great leveller. It is the sweet uncalculating madness, but of incalculable value Pururavas and Urvasie, Ruru and Priyumvada, come together, and they perceive that their union is, ...magically Inevitable as a perfect verse of Veda. 116 Page 52 ...
... Gaze coldly in. She understood the call. The silence and imperfect pallor passed Into her heart and in herself she grew Prescient of grey realities. 210 In Urvasie, Pururavas is described as gazing, .. .into the quiet maiden East, Watching that birth of day, as if a line Of some great poem out of dimness grew, Slowly unfolding into perfect speech ...
... sacrifice one's personal happiness, one's very life even, at he altar of a noble cause. Pururavas failed; Rum failed; Sunjoy was weak and miserable. They failed their people, they failed Bharat; and Sunjoy wished to seek noble ease in preference to possible death in battle. There was no doubt a touch of greatness in Pururavas and Rum, for they were willing to give up everything to gain an Urvasie or a Priyumvada;... man conduct himself on what seems to be no better than the constant challenge of "life's scaffold"? The challenge taken for granted, how was manly man to meet it, master it and exceed it? Love like Pururavas' for Urvasie or Ruru's for Priyumvada was a marvellous and glorious experience, but even such love by itself was not enough! The individual might find his felicity, but only at the cost of the greater ...
... land and Ashrams turned into monasteries. The old Ashrams were not entirely like that; the boys and young men who were brought up in them were trained in many things belonging to life; the son of Pururavas and Urvasie practised archery in the Ashram of a Rishi and became an expert bowman and Kama became a disciple of a great sage in order to acquire from him the use of powerful weapons. So there ...
... had flourished in still earlier times: The old Ashrams were not entirely like that; the boys and young men who were brought up in them were trained in many things belonging to life: the son of Pururavas and Urvasie practised archery in the Ashram of a Rishi and became an expert bowman, and Kama became disciple of a great sage in order to acquire from him the use of powerful weapons. So there is no ...
... one from Sri Aurobindo. He is describing the heavenly nymph Urvasie awaking from a swoon into which she fell under the abducting assault of a Titan. She awakes to the presence of her saviour, King Pururavas: As when a child falls asleep unaware At a closed window on a stormy day, Looking into the weary rain, and long Sleeps, and wakes quietly into a life Of ancient moonlight, first ...
... style is direct, unadorned, moving in its simplicity, j It would be tempting to compare these passages, in Valmiki and in Vyasa, with yet another great piece of poetry, the lament of the king Pururavas in Kalidasa's play Vikramorvashiyam. When the nymph Urvashi in a spasm of jealousy leaves her mortal lover, she enters on proscribed ground and is transformed into a jasmine creeper. The king is ...
... accept Sir Stafford Cripps proposal. 99. Suchi and Sarala were a French couple. Sarala was a good tailoress. 100. "Urvasie": one of Sri Aurobindo's narrative poems. The theme, love of King Pururavas of the lunar dynasty and the nymph Urvasie, is taken from the Mahabharata. 101. Nishkriti: a Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chatterji, translated by Dilip and revised by Sri Aurobindo. ...
... Aurobindo's Baroda manuscripts: "Hindu Drama", "The Historical Method", "On Translating Kalidasa" and the four studies making up "Kalidasa's Characters". "On Translating Kalidasa" and "Pururavas" (published as "The Character of the Hero") appeared as Introduction and Appendix to Vikramorvasie (See 97). The First Edition included a fragmentary translation of Malavica and the... Calcutta, 1911 A translation done by Sri Aurobindo at Baroda, of Kalidasa's Sanskrit drama. The 1952 edition included "On Translating Kalidasa" and "The Character of the Hero" (Pururavas) as Introduction and Appendix (See 36). SABCL: Collected Plays, Vol. 7 98 . THE VIZIERS OF BASSORA Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1959 A dramatic romance ...
... Another instance noted by Sri Aurobindo is a line from a passage in his own early blank-,verse narrative, Urvasie. He was induced to make a comment on this passage which tells us how the hero-king Pururavus, searching far and wide for his lost beloved Urvasie, did not linger on the inferior heights But plunged o'er difficult gorge and prone ravine And rivers thundering between dim walls ...
... outlines to heaven, With distant gleaming vales and turbulent rocks, Giant precipices black-hewn and bold Daring the universal whiteness. Or take the passage in which Pururavas paused not on the plains nor on the foot-hills But plunged over difficult gorge and prone ravine And rivers thundering between dim walls, Driven by immense desire, until he ...
... Brahma = the Creator, one of the Trinity. Brahman is the Eternal and Infinite. In English very often the stem is taken as the form of the name in transliterating and not the nominative form e.g. Pururavas, not Pururavā. So Vivekananda writes "Sannyasin bold" instead of Sannyasi. 1 February 1933 You have given me the spellings of ब्रह्म (the Eternal) and ब्रह्मा (the Creator). Kindly write to ...
... one from Sri Aurobindo. He is describing the heavenly nymph Urvasie awaking from a swoon into which she fell under the abducting assault of a Titan. She awakens to the presence of her saviour, King Pururavus: As when a child falls asleep unawares, At a closed window on a stormy day, Looking into the weary rain, and long Sleeps, and wakes quietly into a life Of ancient moonlight ...
... mythological Hero-King and an Apsara bride before them in that very early narrative in blank verse, Urvasie: As lightning takes the heart with pleasant dread, So love is of the strong Pururavus. As breathes sweet fragrance from the flower oppressed, So love from thy bruised bosom, Urvasie... According to Mr. Ezekiel, normal critical categories are irrelevant to such ...
... at least was the belief suggested by its cry at night to the imaginative Aryans. Nothing can exceed the beauty, pathos & power with which this allusion is employed by Kalidasa. Hear for instance Pururavus as he seeks for his lost Urvasie Thou wild drake when thy love, Her body hidden by a lotus-leaf, Lurks near thee in the pool, deemest her far And wailest musically to the flowers ...
... passage in Sri Aurobindo's poems and plays partake of the character of a symphony that is as contrapuntally rich as it is a beautiful whole. The agonised heart of an Andromeda or Aslaug or of a Pururavas or Ruru finds in blank verse a splendid medium for self-expression; the vaunts and demonic imaginings of Polydaon or Humber, the rages and curses of Cassiopea or Timocles, the sweet-sad virgin ecstasies ...
... over him and faded, and immense Darkness wrapped the hushed mountain solitudes And moonlight's brilliant muse and the cold stars And day upon the summits brightening. 16 Is it Pururavas or Sri Aurobindo that thus stands charmed and enraptured, gazing at the "immortal summits"? Probably, it is both! III In 1879, Dr. Krishnadhan and his wife took Sri Aurobindo and his ...
... to heaven, With distant gleaming vales and turbulent rocks, Giant precipices black-hewn and bold Daring the universal whiteness... Or take from my book the passage in which Pururavus paused not on the plains nor on the foot-hills But plunged o'er difficult gorge and prone ravine And rivers thundering between dim walls, Driven by immense desire, until he came ...
... land and Ashrams turned into monasteries. The old Ashrams were not entirely like that; the boys and young men who were brought up in them were trained in many things belonging to life; the son of Pururavas and Urvasie practised archery in the Ashram of a Rishi and became an expert bowman, and Karna became disciple of a great sage in order to acquire from him the use of powerful weapons. So there is ...
... standards and divine standard, 513; Fire as force and intelligence, 513; Heraclitus and divine Ananda, 514 Herbert, Jean, 760 Hero and the Nymph, The, 69, 70, 90, 94ff; Sri Aurobindo on Pururavas and Urvasie, 94; his handling of blank verse, 94ff; polychromatic rhapsody, 96ff; an Elizabethan play predating the Elizabethans, 98fn Hill, E. F. F., 752 Hitler, Adolf, 127-28, 695 ...
... double movement. In the Mahabharata the story of Savitri depicts a fight between love and death somewhat similar in outward intention to the episodes of Priyumvada and Ruru as well as Urvasie and Pururavus which Sri Aurobindo had already poetised. The Mahabharata relates that when Savitri chose Satyavan for her bridegroom she was told of the prophecy that his life would be short and that soon she ...
... yogic experiences he has been through, his vision has embraced all creation. He now addresses himself to the task of saving the entire human race and transforming it, and avoid the mistake of Pururavas who had been satisfied by the fulfilment of his personal need for Urvashi, while the earth was abandoned to Death and Fate. At this point of time in the epic we watch a new Aswapati who has been ...
... for its crown is not his only, but belongs to "many other souls": Their names are endless. Bharath first Who ruled the Aryan earth that bears his name, And great Dushyanta and Pururavus' Famed warlike son and all their peerless line, Arjoona and Parikshit and his sons Whom God descended to enthrone, and all Who shall come after us, my heirs and thine ...
... the eternity of the Nescience, of mortality. Through three of his poems this subject of love has been treated by the Master and it is in Savitri that it reaches its highest height. In Urvasie Pururavas struck by the shaft of immortal love, denied fulfilment by the power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Ruru recovers Priyamvada from the ...
... the eternity of the Nescience, of mortality. Through three of his poems, this subject of love has been treated by the Master, and it is in Sāvitrī that it reaches its highest height. In Urvaśī, Pururavas struck by the shaft of immortal love, denied fulfilment by the power of the gods, at last gains his immortal love on the heights of Heaven. In Love and Death Rum recovers Priyamvada from the dark ...
... The Savitri story, however, gripped him even more, and he seems to have planned an epyllion, a companion-piece to Urvasie and Love and Death. In Urvasie, when the heroine returns to heaven, Pururavas has to follow and be united with her there, abandoning his kingdom on earth. In Love and Death, when Priyumvada dies stung by a snake, 1 The Harmony of Virtue, SABCL, Vol. 3, pp. 154-55 ...
... intended for inclusion in that poem. (The phrase "to infinity calling" does occur both here and in "The Descent of Ahana", but in different contexts.) One handwritten manuscript. Pururavus . Circa 1933. Several handwritten drafts in a single note-book. It would appear from the manuscript that Sri Aurobindo began this passage as a proposed revision to the opening of the narrative ...
... The Savitri story, however, gripped him even more, and he seems to have planned a epyllion, a companion-piece to Urvasie and Love and Death. In Urvasie, when the heroine returns to heaven, Pururavas has to follow and be united with her there, abandoning his kingdom on earth. In Love and Death, when Priyumvada dies stung by a snake, Ruru seeks her out in Patala (Hades), makes a deal with the ...
... and the Ashrams turned into monasteries. The old Ashrams were not entirely like that; the boys and young men who were brought up in them were trained in many things belonging to life: the son of Pururavas and Urvasie practised archery in the Ashram of a Rishi and became an expert bowman, and Kama became the disciple of a great sage in order to acquire from him the use of powerful weapons. So there ...
... But this belongs to many other souls. VASAVADUTTA To whom? VUTHSA Their names are endless. Bharuth first, Who ruled the Aryan earth that bears his name, And great Dushyanta and Pururavus' Famed warlike son and all their peerless line, Urjoona and Parikshith and his sons Whom God descended to enthrone, and all Who shall come after us, my heirs and thine Who choosest me, and a ...
... derived from Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra. The booklet, which is mentioned in the Rowlett Committee report (of 1917), is reproduced on the following pages. __________________________ and Pururavus. Sri Aurobindo's translation of Kalidasa's drama was not published until 1911. ¹ Abinash Bhattacharya, "Aurobindo", pp. 832-33. Page 66 BHAWANI MANDIR OM NAMAS ...
... find that after Prithu the 14 names are: (1) Antardhana, (2) Havirdhāna, (3) Prachina-barhisha, (4) Prachetas, (5) Daksha, (6) Kaśyapa, (7) Vivasvata, (8) Manu Vaivasvata, (9) Budha (for Ilā), (10) Pururavas (11) Ayu, (12) Nahusha, (13) Yayati, (14) Pūru. But Pūru, the 14th successor, is not the only son of Yayati: we have named him alone because through him we arrive ultimately at the Magadhan line ...
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