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

     

 

 
 

To Lesbia‡

 

0 my Lesbia  let us live for loving,

Suns can set and return to light the morrow,

We when once has sunk down the brief light of living

One long night must be slept and slept for ever.

Give me kisses a thousand, then a hundred,

One more thousand again, again a hundred,

Many thousands of kisses, crowding hundreds —

Kisses numberless like to sands on sea-shore,

Burning Libya's sands in far Cyrene.

Then the thousands confound and mix the hundred

Lest some envious Fate or eye discover

The reckoning of our love and kisses.

 

         ‡Catullus

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