Urvasie : the most beautiful of the celestial nymphs, born from the thigh of Nārāyaṇa; heroine of Kālidāsa’s play Vikramorvasīyam.
... fashionable, and Urvasie - whether Amoldian or no - wasn't quite out of tune with the age. Urvasie is a poem of approximately 1,500 lines, and is divided into four cantos: the length and cast of a small epic like Paradise Regained. The story is substantially Kalidasa's still, but it is here rendered as a metrical romance in blank verse. Admirably proportioned, Urvasie is interspersed... the seventh day, Tilottama and Urvasie come through the gorge and approach him, his steadfastness in love drawing them towards him like a powerful magnet. Tilottama makes one more feeble attempt to wean away his thoughts from Urvasie, reminding him of his path of kingly glory. But he promptly declares that he cares neither for glory nor for far-off purity, for Urvasie is more than all his worlds... suggestion of the filiations between earth and heaven - these divers "marks" of Sri "Aurobindo's Urvasie make it no small achievement in the difficult genre of Romantic Epic. II Love and Death which followed Urvasie, was written when Sri Aurobindo was twenty-seven; somewhat shorter than Urvasie, it runs to about 1,000 lines Page 107 and is not divided into cantos. According ...
... 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 without sweet Urvasie! Page 90 "Rejoice possessing, O Pururavus! Be glad who art possessed, O Urvasie! "Behold the parents of the sacrifice! When they have... clasp a lovely presence grew. "A holy virgin's son we hear of thee Without a father born, Pururavus, Without a mother lovely Urvasie. "Hast thou not brought the sacrifice from heaven, The unquenched, unkindled fire, Pururavus? Hast thou not brought delightful Urvasie? "The fires of sacrifice mount ever up: To their lost heavens they naturally aspire. Their tops are weighted with a human prayer... earth that gave Pururavus. "Rejoice in the blithe earth, O lovely pair, The happy earth all flushed with 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." So sang they and the heart rejoiced. Then rose The princes and went down the long white street ...
... 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 through so considerable a length of English blank verse. Both Love and Death and Urvasie bear traces of the influence of Stephen Phillips's Christ in... alarm from Urvasie, the hero in him leaped up and "on one swift stride reached to his bow." It was a night of thunder: Suddenly wide The whole room stood in splendour manifest, All lightning. In a flash he realised "his weak tenure of mighty bliss", and stood like a statue where he was; but he had already lost his heaven, for his unclothed limbs had been seen by Urvasie. She vanished... interprets it through a self-transcending extremism that seeks to leap beyond the limits of the earth. In Urvasie as well as Love and Death there is that struggle against mortality and the fate which circumscribes mundane life. Pururavus scales an Over-world to clasp the vanished Urvasie; Ruru descends into an Underworld to bring back Priyumvada killed before she was Page 26 ripe ...
... 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 the force of his nature pours itself into his love for her like a river... who carries off his Urvasie and threatening him with a clod of earth which he imagines to be a deadly weapon. But he is not really mad; the next moment he realises his hallucination, and the reaction produces a certain calming down of the fever; yet his mind is still working tumultuously & as he ranges through the forest, every object is converted for a moment into a sign of Urvasie and the megalomaniac... of their hair, the music of their voices. In the Urvasie where he needs at least half the canvas for his hero, the scope for feminine characterisation is of necessity greatly contracted, but what is left Kalidasa has filled in with a crowd of beautiful & shining figures & exquisite faces each of which is recognizable. These are the Opsaras and Urvasie the most beautiful of them all. To understand the ...
... gift of language as this grand-son of the Sun and Moon. It is peculiar to him in the play."68 It is predestined that such a Hero as he should fall for and win such a nonpareil apsara as Urvasie: The Urvasie of the myth... is the spirit of imaginative beauty in the universe, the unattainable ideal for which the soul of man is eternally panting, the goddess adored of the nympholept in all lands... 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", thus gallantly... hoping to reach the hands of Urvasie; he is mistaken - Page 96 Me miserable! This was No anklets' cry embraceable with hands, But moan of swans who seeing the grey wet sky Grow passionate for Himalay's distant tarns. Well, be it so. But ere in far desire They leap up from this pool, I well might learn Tidings from them of Urvasie. 78 In Venkatanatha's ...
... 1898–1902 Complete Narrative Poems Urvasie . Circa 1898. This poem first appeared in a small book printed for private circulation by the Vani Vilas Press, Baroda. (A deluxe edition was printed later by the Caxton Works, Bombay.) In 1942, Sri Aurobindo informed the editors of Collected Poems and Plays that Urvasie was printed "sometime before I wrote Love and Death'"... Death'", that is, before 1899. He also indicated that Urvasie was subsequent Page 696 to Songs to Myrtilla , which was published in 1898. Taking these data together, one is obliged to assign Urvasie to 1898–99. Love and Death . The handwritten manuscript of this poem is dated" June. July 1899". The poem first appeared in print in the review Shama'a... 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 poem "Urvasie". The passage developed on different lines, however, and Sri Aurobindo soon stopped work on it. The Death of a God [1] . Circa 1933. Two handwritten manuscripts; a third manuscript ...
... Towards your solemn summits kindred hands. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Urvasie Urvasie Such then is Urvasie, Narain born, the brightness of sunlight, the blush of the dawn, the multitudinous laughter of the sea, the glory of the skies and the leap of the lightning, all in brief that is bright, far-off, unseizable and compellingly attractive in this world, all too that is wonderful... Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems 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... is noised afar, but he has never yet felt his own soul. But now he sees Urvasie and all the force of his nature pours itself into his love for her like a river which has at last found its natural sea. Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings: Vikramorvasie: The Characters Urvasie I come to you, O mountains, with a heart Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch Towards ...
... it. Urvasie contains a lot of allusions to mythology and legend Urvasie contains a lot of allusions to mythology and legend 1 Quoted in the essay The 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... pursuit of the recognised ideal to which they are wedded." Urvasie is the fairest of the Apsaras—and Sri Aurobindo, unlike Kalidasa, does not fail to present her as she has been pictured by Hindu mythology. Two fine passages may be Page 339 pointed out in this connection. One is the passage in which Pururavus sees Urvasie. Pururavus's words here are not just a lover's idealising i... ched soul through life's lands until it joins the ocean of the Infinite, and "the flowers of Eden" for the perfected happy details of those soul-fertilised places. 2 With regard to Urvasie, the general conception of the Apsaras (or Opsaras, as Sri Aurobindo in his early days under the influence of Bengali pronunciation calls them) may be of interest. Here we may fruitfully draw upon ...
... that thou lovest." And Urvasie, all broken on his bosom, Her godhead in his passion lost, moaned out From her imprisoned breasts, "My lord, 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... in view of its teeming excellences and the poet's young age (barely twenty-three), may be considered with Keats's Hyperion the most remarkable production in blank verse in the English tongue. Urvasie —the story of King Puru-ravus, a mortal hero, who took a nymph of heaven, an Apsara, for bride—is shot with an impetuous beauty and steeped in love's coundess moods. A passage, capturing various phases... throws on that hunger the aspect of a veiled quest of the Infinite. 1 1 The passage from which these 5 lines have been culled, as well as the Page 68 In a less veiled manner Urvasie creates an impression of occult realities or entities. There is not yet the Yogi's eye at work, embodying with intimate awareness the forces and beings behind the earth's complex search and march ...
... Quite obviously, this early version of Savitri was written not long after Urvasie (1896) and Love and Death (1899), the two early narrative poems ('epyllions', Iyengar calls them) 113 in which Sri Aurobindo had essayed a 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... 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' of Gandharvas and Apsaras. An early poem, it is steeped in romantic sentiment and imagery, there is a 'temptation' at its heart, and an implied lesson. What though Urvasie were lost? All was not lost, there were... inexorable bargain with Death, and Ruru and Priyumvada are permitted to renew their interrupted life on earth. In both Urvasie and Love and Death, the hero, faced between two alternatives, unhesitatingly chooses love. Pururavas would rather be united with Urvasie in heaven than remain on earth and discharge his high obligations as a leader of the human race. Ruru would rather get back his ...
... January 1931 The Hero and the Nymph and Urvasie On an old advertisement page of the Arya I find: "The Hero and the Nymph, a translation in verse of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie." Yes, I had forgotten the Hero and the Nymph . Our library hasn't got this translation, nor your poem Urvasie, both of which are out of print. I don't think I have the Urvasie , neither am I very anxious to have this... might have been earlier, but I am not sure. I shall see about the typed copy of the translation. No, I do not reject it. I had merely forgotten all about it. 5 July 1933 Urvasie On Sunday also I shall look at the Urvasie . It is a poem I am not in love with—not that there is not some good poetry in it, but it seems to me as a whole lacking in originality and life. However, I may be mistaken;... this poem saved from oblivion. 5 February 1931 Love and Death, Urvasie and The Hero and the Nymph Was Love and Death your first achievement in blank verse, or did a lot of trial and experiment precede it? Was the brilliant success of your translation from Kalidasa its forerunner? There was no trial or experiment—as I wrote, I did not proceed like that,—I put down what came, changing ...
... outside Homer are in Matthew Arnold's blank-verse narratives—particularly his Sohrab and Rustam —and in the early works of Sri Aurobindo: Urvasie, Love and Death and Baji Prabhou. We may cite 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:... Rossetti's roll-call of "Lady Mary"'s attendants in Heaven: Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys. Sri Aurobindo's recital of the list of Apsara-companions of the peerless Urvasie, dancer in the courts of Indra, is at a yet longer liquidity of proper-nouned loveliness: Menaca, Misracayshie, Mullica, Page 242 Rambha, Nelabha, Shela, Nolinie, Lolita, Lavonya... in sleep, keeps her sublime Discurtained eyes; human dismay comes next, Slowly; last, sudden, they brighten and grow wide With recognition of an altered world, Delighted: so woke Urvasie to love. I shall not linger over the metrical qualities—modulation, pause, enjambment—or the verbal except to mark the phrase: sublime discurtained eyes." The first adjective does not only mean: ...
... and poetry is the native language of love. As for the narrative poems, Urvasie, Love and Death and Baji Prabhou, all belong to the pre-Pondicherry period, at least the first two to the Baroda period. Urvasie is an Aurobindonian narrative version of Kalidasa's play, Vikramorvasie. The Urvasie myth goes back to the Veda, and it has been treated variously by poets and dramatists... extremes of height, the first eminence that strikes us is Sri Aurobindo the poet. 85 The first, as also the last eminence; for, if Sri Aurobindo's earliest efforts were the epyllions Urvasie and Love and Death, his latter-day preoccupation was Savitri, the great epic which he left all but complete. The corpus is, even on a first view, rich in variety as it is impressive (and more... 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 The season unabridged of pomp; the signs ...
... of consciousness was turning increasingly from human to superhuman. Savitri was originally composed with a good deal of the kind of inspiration which flows through Sri Aurobindo's early narratives Urvasie and Love and Death, the inspiration of the life-force with its surge of passion and emotion, the mind-energy with its lucid or recondite sweep of thought and here and there an outbreak of occult sight... frequent too were sudden visitations by the rhythm which passes through lines like the one from Love and Death: Measuring vast pain in his immortal mind, or by the vision as of that other from Urvasie: Time like a snake coiling among the stars. But Sri Aurobindo soon struck beyond the level from which he had written the original poem. He grew master — at all moments and not solely in... shows this 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 ...
... consciousness was turning increasingly from human to superhuman. Savitri was originally composed with a good deal of the kind of inspiration which flows through Sri Aurobindo's early narratives Urvasie and Love and Death, the inspiration of the life-force with its surge of passion and emotion, the mind-energy with its lucid or recondite sweep of thought and here and there an outbreak of occult... were sudden visitations by the rhythm which passes through lines like the one from Love and Death: Measuring vast pain in his immortal mind, or by the vision as of that other from Urvasie: Time like a snake coiling among the stars. But Sri Aurobindo soon struck beyond the level from which he had written the original poem. He grew master - at all moments and not solely... shows this 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 ...
... outside Homer are in Matthew Arnold's blank-verse narratives — particularly his Sohrab and Rustam — and in those early works of Sri Aurobindo: Urvasie, Love and Death, Baji Prabhou. We may cite 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: ... sleep, keeps her sublime Discurtained eyes; human dismay comes next, Slowly; last, sudden, they brighten and grow wide With recognition of an altered world, Delighted: so woke Urvasie to love. I shan't linger over the metrical qualities or the verbal, except to mark the phrase "sublime discurtained eyes". The first adjective does not only mean "exalted" by the wonder visited... but in fact when the poet has worked with true imagination they throw a subtle light upon a situation and bring out some truth from behind the surface of things. Sri Aurobindo speaks of a child. Urvasie, by being compared to this child, is revealed as a soul of innocence: she is, after all, a nymph of heaven, an Apsara, and, as the poem says afterwards, the Apsaras remain ever pure, no matter ...
... both in Urvasie and in Love and Death. Less openly, a general tone of poetic mind from him can also be felt: it persists subtly in ever the poems collected in Ahana, not to mention Baji Prabhou. I don't know whether Swinburne is anywhere patent in your narratives: he probably does have something to do with Songs to Myrtilla. Stephen Phillips is the most direct influence in Urvasie and... first-class original poems with a borrowed substance from a great voice of the past. Mendonca does not refer specifically to Love and Death, to which your enthusiasm first went out, to Poems, to Urvasie and to Perseus the Deliverer though this last he would class, I suppose, as sapless pseudo-Elizabethan drama; but that omission may be there because he only skimmed through them and afterwards... differed in the poems they have chosen; Andrews cited particularly the Rishi and the epigram on Goethe as proof of his description of me as a great poet; an English critic, Richardson, singled out Urvasie and Love and Death and the more romantic poems, but thought that some of my later work was less inspired, too intellectual and philosophical, too much turned towards thought, while some work done ...
... Urvasie seems at first sight to be deficient in feeling; she sends Ayus away from her at his birth & though there is an indication that she must have visited him occasionally, yet long years of separation are also implied which she appears to have borne with some equanimity. In reality she has no choice. By keeping him she would lose both husband & child, by Page 272 Urvasie sends... his thigh there sprang all the beauty of sensuous existence concentrated into a single form. Then the temptresses covered their faces with their veils & silently returned to heaven. Thus was born Urvasie, she that lay hid in the thigh of the Supreme. Page 271 The grace of childhood seems to have had a charm for the mind of Kalidasa; for whenever he introduces a child it is with a double ...
... proved by his early narrative Love and Death which is somewhat similar in outward intention as well as based on an episode in the same ancient Indian epos. That other narrative of his twenties — Urvasie — is also a variant of the identical theme, since, though there is no death in it, it poetises a triumphant struggle against the fate which circumscribes mundane life and snatches away the beloved... each block tell markedly in their own individual mass and force of word and rhythm, though a concordant continuity is maintained in the sense. Enjambment, which was used to impetuous effect in Urvasie and Love and Death, is not altogether avoided, yet end-stopping is the rule as serving better the graver more contained movement demanded by the scriptural mood. Savitri begins with a... transient things. 32 No less do his pulses throb with earth's in Savitri, where the utmost heavens are spanned by The lines that tear the veil from Deity's face, 33 than in Urvasie and Love and Death and Baji Prabhou with their more directly human interest and — to adapt slightly a Savitri- phrase to characterise them — their Words winged with the red splendour ...
... proved by his early narrative Love and Death which is somewhat similar in outward intention as well as based on an episode in the same ancient Indian epos. That other narrative of his twenties— Urvasie —is also a variant of the identical theme, since, though there is no death in it, it poetises a triumphant struggle against the fate which circumscribes mundane life and snatches away the beloved.... of each block tell markedly in their own individual mass and force of word and rhythm, though a concordant continuity is maintained in the sense. Enjambment, which was used to impetuous effect in Urvasie and Love and Death, is not altogether avoided, yet end-stopping is the rule as serving better the graver more contained movement demanded by the scriptural mood. Savitri begins with a picture... s of transient things. No less do his pulses throb with earth's in Savitri, where the utmost heavens are spanned by The lines that tear the veil from Deity's face, than in Urvasie and Love and Death and Baji Prabhou with their more directly human interest and—to adapt slightly a Savitri-phrase to characterise them—their Words winged with the red splendour of the ...
... surprising that the writings of the Baroda period should show up here and there the sharp edges of his current political and revolutionary preoccupations. It was seen earlier that Sri Aurobindo's Urvasie, Love and Death, Baji Prabhou, Chitrangada and Vidula are not merely notable for their evocative power, but they are also poems - or translation - with a purpose. How shall man conduct himself on... 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 good of the... 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; yet in the larger national, human or evolutionary context, they were not great enough. But Chitrangada was able to see her lover Page 185 Arjuna in his heroic role ...
... curiously admirable in the perfection of its structure and dramatic art but with only a few touches of that nobility of manner which raises his tender & sensuous poetry and makes it divine. In the Urvasie he is preening his wings for a mightier flight; the dramatic art is not so flawless, but the characters are far deeper and nobler, the poetry stronger and more original and the admirable lyrical sweetness... established wife for the new innamorata occupy the whole picture in the Malavica, though they are touched with exquisite skill and transfigured into elements of a gracious and smiling beauty. In the Urvasie the space given to them is far more limited and their connection with the main action less vital; and they are less skilfully handled: finally in the Shacountala we have only vestiges of them,—a p... unrecognized poet challenging the fame of the great dramatic classics and apprehensive of severe criticism for Page 194 his audacity, which he anticipates by a defiant challenge. When the Urvasie is first represented, his position as a dramatist is more assured; only the slightest apology is given for displacing the classics in favour of a new play and the indulgence of the audience is requested ...
... first-class original poems with a borrowed substance from a great voice of the past. Mendonҫa does not refer specifically to Love and Death , to which your enthusiasm first went out, to Poems , to Urvasie and to Perseus the Deliverer though this last he would class, I suppose, as sapless pseudo-Elizabethan drama; but that omission may be there because he only skimmed through them and afterwards could... differed in the poems they have chosen; Andrews cited particularly the Rishi and the epigram on Goethe as proof of his description of me as a great poet; an English critic, Richardson, singled out Urvasie and Love and Death and the more romantic poems, but thought that some of my later work was less inspired, too intellectual and philosophical, too much turned towards thought, while some work done... even for twice or thrice the time recommended by Horace who advised the poet to put by his work and read it again after ten years and then only, if he still found it of some value, to publish it. Urvasie , the second of the only two poems published early, was sent at first to Lionel Johnson, a poet and littérateur of some reputation who was the Reader of a big firm. He acknowledged some poetic merit ...
... proved by his early narrative Love and Death which is somewhat similar in outward intention as well as based on an episode in the same ancient Indian epos. That other narrative of his twenties - Urvasie - is also a variant of the identical theme, since, though there is no death in it, it poetises a triumphant struggle against the fate which 1 Now adjudged to be a few less because some have... of each block tell markedly in their own individual mass and force of word and rhythm, though a concordant continuity is maintained in the sense. Enjambment, which was used to impetuous effect in Urvasie and Love and Death, is not altogether avoided, yet end-stopping is the rule as serving better the graver more contained movement demanded by the scriptural mood. Savitri begins with a picture... . [p. 427] No less do his pulses throb with earth's in Savitri, where the utmost heavens are spanned by The lines that tear the veil from Deity's face, [p. 677] than in Urvasie and Love and Death and Baji Prabhou with their more directly human interest and - to adapt slightly a Savitri- phrase to characterise them - their Words winged with the red splendour of ...
... a, 84ff; on Nala and Savitri, 85-6; Vidula, 87; translation from Bhartrihari, 88; from Kalidasa, 90ff; The Birth of the War-God, 92ff; The Hero and the Nymph, 94ff; on Vikramorvasie, 98fn; Urvasie, 99-107; Love and Death, 108; Baji Prabhou, 1148; Perseus the Deliverer, 120-9; The Viziers of Bassora, 128-34; Rodogune, 13441; Eric, 141-7; Vasavadutta, 147-52; The Witch of Ilni... 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, 696ff, 707... 721,722 Tukaram, 9,280,497 Twelfth Night, 133 Tyberg, Judith (Jyotipriya), 751 Ulupy (Uloupie), 106 Upadhyaya, Brahmabandhab, 190,245,305, 326,728 Urvasie, 68,99ff; Lionel Johnson on, 99; Sri Aurobindo's integral approach, 99; 'dawn' in, 100; 'mortal mightier than the God's, 102; comparison with the Chitrangada story, 106; as epyllion, 106 ...
... immediately following - has now been surveyed, in the present and the three previous chapters, in considerable detail. The many translations from Greek, Bengali and Sanskrit; the metrical romances, Urvasie and Love and Death; the heroic poem, Baji Prabhou; the dramatic romances and fragments; the many philosophical and spiritually oriented poems - amounting to many thousands of lines of verse, excluding... ; and not many practitioners of verse among his exact contemporaries in England have given proof of the same facility and dexterity in wielding the instrument of blank verse as is evidenced in Urvasie, Love and Death, Baji Prabhou and the several dramas (including The Hero and. the Nymph). The late Lytton Strachey aptly compared blank verse to the Djinn in the Arabian Nights story: it is either... 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 of Urvasie or Vasavadutta, the exultations and jealousies and distractions of lovers, all, all are conveyed by Sri Aurobindo through his blank verse rhythms, possessing almost always the qualities of flexibility ...
... to urge them to 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 ...
... al 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 monstrosities ...
... his master that love cannot live by heavenly food alone. But, as we have said, Sethna has for his ideal a later Sri Aurobindo, he has left behind Sri Aurobindo's early reponses to the love of Urvasie and Priyamvada. In Altar and flame - although the poet calls his products "mundane" in an interview with the present writer - there is already a maturer sight into the mystery of love. With... and beauty indicates the great process going on inside the poet. Sri Aurobindo was not wrong when he named the young Parsi from Bombay Amal Kiran. Who is Sethna's dream lady? It cannot be an Urvasie or a Priyamvada. It must be the daughter of Savitr (Savitr means the Creator). A woman, white-veiled, crowned with olive, came — Under the shade of her green mantle, all ...
... practise maintaining the level of the more energetic among the lines you have been writing. 3 May 1937 Page 614 Is your Love and Death an epic, and Urvasie and Baji Prabhou? Love and Death is epic in long passages. Urvasie is written on the epic model. Baji Prabhou is not epic in style or rhythm. Are your twelve recent poems too in the epic style? No, they are lyrical, ...
... inevitable'." 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 ...
... Savitri. In addition to the different kind of poetic creation which Ilion represents, there are three long early narratives of greater "human" interest developed in another cast of blank verse: Urvasie, Love and Death, Baji Prabhou, the last-named a martial episode of the time of the great Mahratta leader Shivaji. Then there are dramas ranging over many epochs and types of human culture: Page... little is any Victorian diction present in them. The old convention of putting a noun between two adjectives lingers here and there, but that is Miltonic no less than Tennysonian. Even in the earlier Urvasie, composed in his twenty-third year, no Victorian diction comes in to artificialise the poetry. Always there is a vivida vis - and it persists in Savitri, though this poem differs in general mould ...
... Orient, of Bombay. It is also the first lengthy and comprehensive study written of Sri Aurobindo's published poetry up to that year—barring translated work and his earliest blank-verse narrative, Urvasie, which was out of print and not even in his own possession. Previous to this article, only two short notices attempting critical evaluation had come out: James Cousins' "The Philosopher as Poet" in... sublime language, like fierce rain: "For what is mere sunlight? Who would live on into extreme old age, 1 The "imaginative alchemy" of the still earlier published but unknown Urvasie, which has greater length than either of these, has been dealt with in some detail in the first part of The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (1948).— Page 10 Burden the impatient ...
... 388-389; Cantos and, 389-394; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel compared to, 403-408; the Mother's role in the writing of,415-416; the Commedia and, 416-420; The Life Divine and, 417; scheme of, 420; Urvasie and Love and Death compared to, 421-423; revisions in, 423-424; Faust and, 424-427; architectural design of, 427-431; the Commedia's cosmos and the cosmos of Savitri compared, 432; symbolic... 25 Tillyard, E.M.W. 337,379,395, 445 456 Tod, James 51 Turner, W.J. 310-312 Underhill, Evelyn 339, 348 Urban, Wilbur Marshall 274, 449 Urvasie 40, 52,201,318,340,342,363,386, 421-423, 458 Valmiki 243,340,341,384 Van Ruvsbroeck, Jan 326 Vasavadutla 47-49, 318 Vidula 12, 46, 458 ...
... a translation in verse of Poet Kalidas's drama. ¹ I quietly bowed, touched his feet and left the room with a heavy heart and wet eyes. Though ¹. This book must have been Urvasie, a poem based on the legend of Urvasie Page 65 an old man now – with one foot in the grave, – I still remember the parting scene with a heaving heart. From March 1905 to February 1906, Sri Aurobindo ...
... Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1942 Published in two volumes and arranged according to the date of composition. Volume I, Contents: 1890-1902: Songs to Myrtilla (See S\), Urvasie (See 93), Love and Death (See 51). 1895-1908: Poems: Ahana and Other Poems, excluding "Ahana" (See 3), Perseus the Deliverer (See 65). Volume II, Contents: 1895-1908:... "The Present Situation" from the weekly Bande Mataram, February 23, 1908. Both were subsequently included in Speeches (See 82). SABCL: Bande Mataram, Vol. 1 93. URVASIE: A Poem First Edition [for private circulation]: Lakshmi Vilas Press Co., Ltd., Baroda, no date (c. 1896) Included, with some revisions, in Collected Poems and Plays ...
... similes both in Urvasie and in Love and Death. Less openly, a general tone of poetic mind from him can also be felt: it persists subtly in even the poems collected in Ahana, not to mention Baji Prabhou. I don't know whether Swinburne is anywhere patent in your narratives: he probably does have something to do with Songs to Myrtilla. Stephen Phillips is the most direct influence in Urvasie and Love and ...
... English critic Banning Richardson who reviewed at some length in The Aryan Path (March 1944) the two volumes of Sri Aurobindo's Collected Poems and Plays picked out Love and Death and the earlier Urvasie after writing: "These two volumes are rich in beauty and suggestiveness... Though the works are by no means of uniform quality - indeed what poet's are? - they reveal a true poetic spirit, and sometimes... mastery of the English language that the writer has attained." Richardson did not know of either Ilion or Savitri which were still unpublished, except for 380 lines of the former. He regarded Urvasie and Love and Death as Sri Aurobindo's greatest works, most abundant in imaginative expression, but he noted with a bit of regret that they were shot so much with erotic vividness. Nowhere did he ...
... that mass Of livid menace went a frail light cloud Rushing through heaven, and behind it streamed The downpour all in wet and greenish lines. This is from your own Urvasie, Urvasie, written in the middle nineties of the last century. Ofcourse it is possible that the printer has omitted a terminal d — bur is that really the explanation?) "I dare say I tried to ...
... of the Tale of Nala, but only about 150 lines have survived. 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 ...
... inevitable'." 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 ...
... 1937 [The first 3 questions were put by J:] Kindly say who are the epic writers. I want to read them all. Is your "Love and Death" an epic, and "Urvasie", and "Baji Prabhou"? Love and Death is epic in long passages. Urvasie is written on the epic model. Baji Prabhou is not epic in style or rhythm Are your 12 recent poems 137 too in epic style? No, they are lyrical, though ...
... diffusiveness in the rhythm or in the metrical flow anywhere, there must be a flow but not a loose flux. 146 Sri Aurobindo had tried blank verse of the ordinary kind in his early poems, Urvasie and Love and Death and Baji Prabhou, as also the plays (including his translation of Kalidasa's Vikramorvasie as The Hero and the Nymph), but now his aim in Savitri was, "to catch something... Aurobindo's early blank verse achieved such effects of easy naturalness and nervous sinuosity with little apparent effort. Savitri must originally have been conceived as a companion piece to Urvasie and Love and Death, and written in blank verse of the same kind, with enjambement and shifting caesura and a tendency to form verse paragraphs in the Miltonic manner. Writing in 1934, Sri Aurobindo ...
... entering earth suffers an alteration, a diminution and pollution. It is mixed with baser elements of human nature. Kalidasa too mentions these – foremost of all is jealousy – jealousy that caught Urvasie like a wild fire and made her run helter-skelter and enter straight into the arms of self-oblivion and infra-consciousness – she turned into a soulless plant. Thirdly, the limitation that the very... 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 heart-rending frantic yell: "Blow, winds and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"² relieved, one may say in Kalidasa, by his sheer poetry – but in Shakespeare ...
... published in 1915, it was probably written some years earlier, it could therefore be looked upon as somewhat of a palimpsest, a convenient bridge between the imaginative and sensuously evocative poet of Urvasie and Love and Death on the one hand and the yogin-singer of the The Rose of God and the * The reader is referred, for a fuller discussion, to the present writer's article on Ahana in... " 105 Page 646 V All streams in Sri Aurobindo's Himalayas of achievement seem to lead to the puskarinī - the nectarean pool - of Savitri. The narrative poems, Urvasie and Love and Death, with their preoccupation with the problem of death and of human felicity, find their remote consummation in the legendary and symbolistic tale of Satyavan, Savitri and Yama; ...
... of the Tale of Nala, but only about 150 lines have survived. 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 ...
... inspiration flowed easily into the moulds of translations from Sanskrit and Bengali, and lyric and narrative poetry. Urvasie and Love and Death, for example, took the romantic epic as far as it could go - and it was to great heights indeed. The scaling of high heaven in Urvasie, the descent into Hell or Patala in Love and Death, the fight for the mountain pass in the later Baji Prabhou: one ...
... VII. The Agnimitra; its plot; perfection of dramatic workmanship; Kalidasa's method of characterisation; the characters. Dramatic style. Relation of the Agnimitra to the Raghu. Chapter VIII. The Urvasie.. dramatic workmanship & conception; character of the poetry; relation to Meghaduta. Chapter IX. The Characters. Chapter X XI XII. The Shacountala. Chapter XIII XIV. The Kumara. Chapter XV ...
... 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 A wild deep dirge. Such ...
... Transformation 561 Transiit, Non Periit 282 A Tree 207 The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou 215 Uloupie 163 The Universal Incarnation 607 The Unseen Infinite 618 Urvasie 65 Vain, they have said 663 Vast-winged the wind ran 651 The Vedantin's Prayer 212 The Vigil of Thaliard 48 Vision 255 A Vision of Science 204 Voice ...
... insisting on 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 ...
... 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 is no a priori ...
... arose. A finely descriptive and subtly imaginative recounting of a famous traditional episode is promised, something like the poetic creations of Sri Aurobindo's middle and late twenties - Urvasie and Love and Death. But, as we perceive when we read further, we have more mental power of insight than in those narrative masterpieces of an impetuous romantic vitality. Like the semi-historical ...
... lyricism. Certain parts of Gitanjali have this double quality - so do others that are not devotional at all. Devotionalism is not the sine qua non. I don't think one could designate Tagore's "Urvasie" devotional, but I am inclined to rank it among his finest rishi-creations. It is necessary to say, however, that the poet in one could be on many occasions a rishi but as a man one might be very ...
... Gitanjali have this double quality - so do others that are not Page 150 devotional at all. Devotionalism is not the sine qua non. I don't think one could designate Tagore's Urvasie as devotional, but I am inclined to rank it among his finest rishi-creations. It is necessary to say, in passing, that Tagore the poet was on many occasions a rishi but Tagore the man was on ...
... from that mass Of livid menace went a frail light cloud Rushing through heaven, and behind it streamed The downpour all in wet and greenish lines. This is from your own Urvasie, written in the middle nineties of the last century. Of course it is possible that the printer has omitted a terminal d — but is that really the explanation ? "I dare say I tried to Latinise ...
... 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, begot a son ...
... A Reader's Letter In The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo (p. 26) you find some small fault with "Like heaven's vast eagle" in the lines from the very early narrative poem of Sri Aurobindo, Urvasie: Like heaven's vast eagle all that blackness swept Down over the inferior snowless heights And swallowed up the dawn. You suggest instead: "Like a vast eagle", which appears ...
... delineator of beauty" is as serious a mistake as to see him cropping up in Sri Aurobindo. The Difference between "Traditional" and "Derivative" It would be rash to deny influences in Urvasie or Love and Death, the works of Sri Aurobindo's youth. However, not only is the influence of the Idylls most faint, if at all, but also the other influences do not prevent the play of a fresh ...
... rules, for a prescribed technique, so that it may attain to a tranquil and peaceful gait. It has need of emotion, impetus and sharpness. It is like the free stepping of a lightning flare, as if an Urvasie dancing in Tagore's own hall of music. But it does not mean that this language is overflowing with mere emotion. Here too there is a regulated order and restraint. The ultimate growth and perfection ...
... some eight or ten recasts of it originally under the old insufficient inspiration ," 25 Page 382 It is almost certain it was begun, along with or not long after Urvasie and Love and Death, in the Baroda period; he might have returned to it from time to time, retouching it here and there; but the decision to transform it altogether—"recasting the whole thing"—must ...
... series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji to the Induprakash. 1895 Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of poems. 1896 Probable year of publication of Urvasie, a narrative poem. 1897 Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 Appointed acting Professor of English in the College. ...
... pattern consisting of three elements: i. Death, threatened or actual; ii. Temptation; and iii. Rescue or rebirth. This applies no less to Sri Aurobindo's Urvasie, Love and Death and Savitri. (See Introduction to A Selection from the Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1946. p.xv). 120. Savitri,?. 827. 121. ibid.,p.917. 122 ...
... of poetic inspiration, before continuing the story. In the present version we have the bare bones of the Mahabharata story transformed into the flesh and blood of a spacious narrative poem like Urvasie and Love and Death of Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period; what is lacking in Book VIII is the epic amplitude, the luminous extravagant richness, the cosmic overtones and the more or less consistent overhead ...
... dawn 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 ...
... with his attempts to give expression to his mystical experiences, and the results have been astonishing. He no doubt attained an early mastery of the blank verse, as may be seen in his Urvasie and Love and Death, as also his plays— Perseus the Deliverer, Vasavadutta, Rodogune and The Viziers of Bassora. Presendy he was attracted to the classical quantitative metres, notably the ...
... Chandra Chatterji Page 812 to the Indu Prakash. 1895 — Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of Poems. 1896 — Probable year of publication of Urvasie, a narrative poem. 1897 — Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 — Appointed acting professor of English in the College. 1899 — Serves ...
... preoccupation in poetry at that time was the mystic symbolic epic, Savitri. III Sri Aurobindo is supposed to have made an early draft of Savitri at Baroda, as a companion-piece to his Urvasie and Love and Death. And the fact that the Savitri legend also relates to the theme of love and separation and death as in Uloupie and Chitrangada (the other narrative poems of the Baroda days) ...
... 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 a priori ...
... Rose of God 381-2, 386 The Divine Hearing 383-4 In Horis Aeternum 385 Page 922 Trance 386 The Life Heavens 386 Musa Spiritus 386 The Pilgrim of the Night 387 Urvasie 387 Uloupie 387 Chitrangada 387 Love and Death 387 The Cosmic Man 394 The Children of Wotan 396, 410-1 The Iron Dictators 396 The Dwarf Napoleon 397, 405 In the Battle ...
... 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 comparative ...
... 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 no a priori ...
... disperse of horsemen, from that mass Of livid menace went a frail light cloud Rushing through heaven, and behind it streamed The downpour all in wet and greenish lines. This is from your own Urvasie! Of course, it is possible that the printer has omitted a terminal "d"—but is that really the explanation? I dare say I tried to Latinise. But that doesn't make it a permissible form. If it is ...
... Lolita, Lavonya and Tillottama... Of course, Rossetti is speaking of the "five handmaidens" of "Lady Mary" in the heavenly groves and Sri Aurobindo is listing the apsara-companions of the peerless Urvasie, dancer in the courts of Indra. But without their contexts, the lines only suggest lovely things. An Indian ignorant of European names and with no knowledge of Christian religious legend will hardly ...
... elaborate false simplicity and an attempt at a kind of brilliant, sometimes lusciously brilliant sentimental or sententious commonplace." Even the nineteenth-century blank verse of Sri Aurobindo — Urvasie, Love and Death, The Hero and the Nymph (the last-named a translation of a drama of Kalidasa's) — are free from the typical Tennysonese, and it is free not merely by being impetuously enjambed as ...
... bination is chiefly perceptible in a voluptuous directness— nothing vulgar or lascivious yet a sharp frank awareness of the impassioned body and its enamoured rhythms. This combination affines Urvasie and Love and Death to the poetry of Kalidasa, as perhaps might be guessed from the fact that the former treats in essence the same theme as a play of Kalidasa's which Sri Aurobindo translated soon ...
... delineator of beauty" is as serious a mistake as to see him cropping up in Sri Aurobindo. The Difference between "Traditional" and "Derivative" It would be rash to deny influences in Urvasie and Love and Death, the works of Sri Aurobindo's youth. However, not only is the influence of the Idylls most faint, if at all, but also the other influences do not prevent the play of a fresh ...
... force of Word and rhythm, though a concordant continuity is maintained in the sense. Enjambment (overflow from line to line) which was used to impetuous effect in Sri Aurobindo's early narratives — Urvasie, Love and Death and Baji Prabhou — is not altogether avoided, yet end-stopping is the rule as serving better the graver, more contained movement demanded by the scriptural mood. A notable feature ...
... occurrence in his poetry in general comes in Songs to Myrtilla: Behold in emerald fire The spotted lizard crawl Upon the sun-kissed wall... A few years later we meet it in Urvasie: a mystic dewy Half-invitation into emerald worlds– and in Love and Death: ...wandering mid leaves Through emerald ever-new discoveries... We find it also ...
... elaborate false simplicity and an attempt at a kind of brilliant, sometimes lusciously brilliant sentimental or sententious commonplace." Even the nineteenth-century blank verse of Sri Aurobindo - Urvasie, Love and Death, The Hero and the Nymph (the last-named a translation of a drama of Kalidasa's) - are free from the typical Tennysonese, and it is free not merely by being impetuously enjambed as ...
... Hero and the Nymph 218 The Life Divine 38,59,166,320 Page 378 The Riddle of This World 254 TheRishi 99 The Secret of the Veda 302 Urvasie 2,60,74,218,289 St. John of the Cross 126 subtle-physical body 116 plane 209 Sufi 70 sukshma sharira 116 Sun of Truth 38,86 Supermind 51,58 Supernature 12 ...
... correspond only to the period,—mostly the Baroda period,—when he was engaged in writing narrative poems with similar themes drawn from Indian history and mythology. We have in this group poems such as Urvasie (1896) and Love and Death (1899) where the style as well as the similarity of spellings of the Indian names bears plausible confirmation of Savitri as a composition of that time, around 1900 ...
... Milton: Wordsworth, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, to name only some. Each gave something to it, some lucidity, grandeur, beauty, sweetness or flow. Sri Aurobindo's earlier attempts, like Love and Death, Urvasie and Baji Prabhou, reveal part influence of these poets. But in Savitri there is a total break from the past. Just as Milton cancelled the past licences which had made blank verse a love or ...
... we may say, transmutes creatively the powers and presence of the poetry of Valmiki, Vyasa and Kalidasa and gives them a form in a foreign language. In his early narratives, Love and Death and Urvasie, the influence is still too apparent. But in Savitri, which he had begun more or less at the same time, 28 the influence 25 Ibid , pp. 106-7. 26 Ibid ., p. 96. 27 See, Ibid ...
... difficult to explain in a mental form, for the mental reasons are on the surface and can be counter-argued. However, I shall perhaps try to do so on Sunday. On Sunday also I shall look at the Urvasie. 100 It is a poem I am not in love with—not that there is not some good poetry m it, but it seems to me as a whole lacking in originality and Page 253 life. However, I may be mistaken; ...
... from the mass Of livid menace went a frail light cloud Rushing through heaven, and behind it streamed The downpour all in wet and greenish lines. This is from your own Urvasie, written in the middle nineties of the last century! Sri Aurobindo: I dare say I tried to Latinise. But that does not make it a permissible form. If it is obsolete, it must remain obsolete. I ...
... 1893-1905 1956 Rodogune (a tragedy in 5 acts), 1893-1905 1958 Illion: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters, 1893- 1905 1957 Vasavadutta (a dramatic romance), 1915 1957 Urvasie, 1893 1896 Ahana and other Poems, 1893-1910 1915 Love and Death, 1900 1921 The Viziers of Bassora (a dramatic romance), 1893-1905 . 1959 Eric (a dramatic romance) ...
... of 1926, the Siddhi —and all achieve poetic recordation in Savitri. We may start, again, from Sri Aurobindo's early experiments in lyric and narrative poetry— Songs to Myrtilla, Urvasie, Love and Death and follow his career as a poet; his renderings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata —the fragments, Nala and Chitrangada, the 'heroic' Vidula and Baji Prabhou, the blank ...
... They have the creative force. NIRODBARAN: What about Arjava (J. Chadwick)? SRI AUROBINDO: He has none. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO: I think Tagore's "Parash Pathar" ("Philosopher's Stone") and "Urvasie" have the creative force, though it is not usual for him to have it. Tagore has created something here, not character but a world, not an outer world but an inner one, a reality of the inner life of ...
... sources. But now the literature of my country - the Mahabharata, the dramas of Kalidasa and other Sanskrit masterpieces - opened up new creative possibilities for me. For example. Love and Death, Urvasie, Savitri are all drawn from episodes in the Mahabharata." "Did you then spend all your time working, reading and writing? Did you never take part in the social life of Baroda?" "Hardly ever ...
... 290n Troy, 399 UNITED STATES, THE, 362 Upanishads, the, 188, 221, 246, 272-3, 27.5, 284, 297, 310-11, 320, 334, 340,371,377,379, 388-9,400 – Katha, 284n., 298n – Kena, 272 Urvasie, 390-1 VAISHNAVA, 183,265 Vaishnavism, 183 Varuna, 189,318-9, 369 Vedanta, 181, 197 Vedas, the, 188, 294, 330-1, 357, 369, 371 Villon, François, 338n Virgil, 284 Vishnu ...
... (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1911 Songs of Vidyapati, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1956 Rodogune, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1958 Ilion .- 1st ed. 1957 Vasavadutta 1915-1916.- 1st ed. 1957 Urvasie, 1893-1896.- 1st ed. 1896 Ahana and Other Poems, 1895-1915 .- 1st ed. 1915 Love and Death, 1899.- 1st ed. 1921 The Viziers of Bassora, 1893-1905 (Baroda).- 1st ed. 1959 Eric, 1912 ...
... 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 is no a priori ...
... highest aspect of the Divine, and his faith is that divine beauty not only can but shall walk on earth;—"Beauty shall walk celestial on earth" (Savitri). Three of his long poems "Love and Death", "Urvasie" and "Savitri" deal with the subject of love and therefore are concerned with beauty. The whole outlook breathes the spirit of one who not only knows true beauty but lives in secure intimacy with it ...
... love for Sanskrit picked up Kalidasa's Shakuntala and Vikramorvasie and presented them to me as a token of his love. He also gave me / his book of poems: Songs to Myrtilla and another, Urvasie. I Page 222 quietly bowed, touched his feet and left the room with a heavy heart and wet eyes. Though an old man now, with one foot in the grave," said Patkar in 1956, "I still remember ...
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