TRANSLATIONS

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents 

 

 

I. FROM SANSKRIT

   

 

 

 

BHAGAVAD GITA

 
 

Chapter One

 
 

Chapter Two

 
 

Chapter Three

 
 

Chapter Four

 
 

Chapter Five

 
 

Chapter Six

 

 

 

KALIDASA

 
 

The Birth of the War-God

 Canto One:

 
 

The Birth of the War-God, Canto Two

 
 

Malavica and the King

 
 

The Line of Raghu

 

 

 

 

Sankaracharya

 
 

Bhavani

 

 

 

 

III FROM TAMIL

 

 IV. FROM GREEK AND LATIN

 
 

The Kural

 

Odyssey

 
 

Nammalwar’s Hymn of the Golden Age

 

On A Satyr and Seeping Love

 
 

Love-Mad

 

A Rose of Women

 
 

Refuge

 

To Lesbia

 
 

To the Cuckoo

     
 

I Dreamed a Dream

     
 

Ye Others

     

 

 

 

A Beauty Infinite*

 

 A Beauty infinite, an unborn Power

On Time's vast forehead drew her mystic line;

An unseen Radiance filled the primal hour, —

First script, creation's early rapture-wine.

Lightning in Night the eternal moment wrote.

Her lone eyes bathed in hue of loveliness

Saw on a flaming stream a single boat

Follow through dawn some great Sun's orbit-trace.

The Dawn-world flashed — torn was the heart of Night.

Why came then Dawn here with her cloud and surge?

Darkness erased the hint of new-born Light, —

Till suddenly quivered above the pilgrim Urge,

Its flower-car washed blood-red. Smile of the Moon,

And, held in her hand, a Sun-flute's golden croon.

 

 * Jyotirmayee 

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