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-30_Notes On the Mahabharata (detailed).htm

Notes on the Mahabharata   by Aurobind Ghose   dealing with the authenticity of each separate canto, i.e. whether it belongs or not to the…

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-58_The Chandranagar Manuscript – Rajayoga.htm

Rajayoga   Man fulfilling himself in the body is given Hathayoga as his means. When he rises above the body, he abandons Hathayoga as a…

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-05_Bankim – His Youth and College Life.htm

    Part Two   On Literature     Sri Aurobindo wrote all the pieces in this part in Baroda between 1893 and 1906. He…

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-44_On Art – The National Value of Art.htm

Part Four   On Art   Sri Aurobindo wrote these essays in 1909­10. He published all of them except the last in the Karmayogin, a…

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-89_ Notes on the Texts.htm

Note on the Texts   EARLY CULTURAL WRITINGS consists of essays on literature, education and art, as well as dialogues, biographical and historical sketches, and…

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-78_Bankim-Tilak-Dayanand – Rishi Bankim Chandra.htm

Part Nine   Bankim ­ Tilak ­ Dayananda   Sri Aurobindo wrote the pieces in this part at various times between 1907 and 1920; he…

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-10_Bankim – What He did for Bengal.htm

    VI   What He Did for Bengal       I HAVE kept so far to Bankim’s achievement looked at purely as literature….

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-19_Kalidasa – The Malavas.htm

The Malavas   Once in the long history of poetry the great powers who are ever working the finest energies of nature into the warp…

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-84_Appendix-I – Speches written for the Maharaja of Baroda.htm

Appendix One   Baroda Speeches and Reports   Sri Aurobindo wrote the pieces in this part between 1901 and 1905, while serving in the Princely…

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-28_Kalidasa – Appendix.htm

APPENDIX   ALTERNATIVE AND UNUSED PASSAGES AND FRAGMENTS   1   [An early fragment]   Kalidasa does best in more complicated & grandiose metres where…

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