INDEX and GLOSSARY

 

OF SANSKRIT AND OTHER INDIAN TERMS

 

 

Contents

 

Pre-content

 

 

NOTE ON THE CENTENARY LIBRARY

 

 

SRI AUROBINDO: LIFE AND WORKS

  Sri Aurobindo A Life Sketch 

 

 

CHRONOLOGY

  Of Sri Aurobindo's Life

 

 

CONTENTS

  Of the Centenary Library

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Of the Works of Sri Aurobindo

 

 

PERIODICALS

  With which Sri Aurobindo was Associated

 

 

ESSAYS, SPEECHES

  And Other Shorter Works.

 

 

POEMS

  Title Index

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

  Title Index

 

 

INDEX TO THE CENTENARY LIBRARY ....

 

 

GLOSSARY OF SANSKRIT AND OTHER INDIAN TERMS

 

APPENDIX TO THE GLOSSARY

List of Longer Passages from Sanskrit Texts Cited and Translated by Sri Aurobindo

 

 

APPENDIXES

  APPENDIX 1  
    Sri Aurobindo's Notes on Certain English Terms Occurring in His Works
  APPENDIX 2  
    List of Citations Appearing in The Life Divine
  APPENDIX 3  
    List of Vedic Translations and Citations
  ERRATA

 

 

 

 

Translations: Title Index

 

Only the translations in Volume 8, Translations, are listed here; therefore only the page number has been given.

Title or First Line

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

The Abomination of Wickedness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

190

Action be Man's God

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

199

Adornment

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

188

Advice to a King

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

180

Age and Genius

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

177

Ah how shall I her lovely body express ? ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

227

Ah nurse, what will become of us ? ...

Jnanadas

Bengali

291

Ah sweet, thou hast not understood ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

272

Ah, who has built this girl ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

228

All day and night in lonely anguish ...

Horu Thakur

Bengali

286

All day within me only one music rings ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

363

Altruism Oceanic

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

191

The Altruist

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

192

Angry beauty, be not loth ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

260

Appeal

Chandidas

Bengali

305

An Aryan City

Ramayana

Sanskrit

3

The Aryan Ethic

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

192

As the swan sails, so moved she ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

233

Aut Caesar aut Nullus

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

175

 

 

 

 

The Ball

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

195

Beautiful Radha, Caanou dost thou see not

Jnanadas

Bengali

296

Beautiful Rai, the flower-like maid ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

242

A Beauty Infinite

Jyotirmayee

Bengali

391

The Beauty of Giving

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

179

Beauty stood bathing in the river ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

240

Behold, the perfect-gloried dawn ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

362

The best of the year has come, the Spring ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

254

Bhavani

Shankaracharya

Sanskrit

212

The Birth of the War-God: Canto One

Kalidasa

Sanskrit

99

The Birth of the War-God: Canto Two

Kalidasa

Sanskrit

125

Bodies without Mind

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

166

The Book of the Assembly Hall

Mahabharata

Sanskrit

27

Bums on that other shore ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

381

 

 

 

 

Caanou to see I had desire ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

230

Cease, clouds of autumn, cease to roll...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

270

Childhood and youth each other ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

219

Childhood and youth, maiden, are met...

Bidyapati

Bengali

222


 

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Title or First Line

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

Childhood is fled and youth in its seat...

Bidyapati

Bengali

226

Childhood is flown, youth arrived ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

262

A Choice

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

167

Circumstance

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

180

Comparisons

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

170

The Conqueror

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

204

The Conquests of Sovereign Poetry

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

171

A Contrast

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

174

       

Dawn has become to me a golden fold ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

361

Day by day her milk-breasts drew splendour

Bidyapati

Bengali

220

The day is filled with clouds and dusk ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

365

Death, not Vileness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

209

The Debated Sacrifice

Mahabharata

Sanskrit

35

Definitions

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

203

Description of the Virtuous

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

187

       

Ere I had taken half my will of joy ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

271

Evening has fallen upon the world ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

379

Evening has not descended yet...

C. R. Das

Bengali

378

Evil Nature

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

183

Eyes of the hind, you are my jailors ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

267

       

Facilis Descensus

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

165

Fame's Sufficiency

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

205

Farewell Flute

Dilip K. Roy

Bengali

384

Fate

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

210

Fate and Freewill

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

197

Fate and Wisdom

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

169

Fate Masters All

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

197

Fate Masters the Gods

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

196

Fixed Fate

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

201

The Flame of the Soul

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

203

Flowers from a Hidden Root

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

202

The flute of dawn has rung out...

C. R. Das

Bengali

360

The Follies of Fate

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

198

Folly's Wisdom

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

164

Foresight and Violence

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

201

For love of thee I gave all...

Jnanadas

Bengali

294

The Friendship of Tyrants

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

184

       

Gaster Anaides

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

207

Gods

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

194

Golden Daughter

Nirodbaran

Bengali

389

Good Company

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

171

The Good Friend

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

190


 

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Title or First Line  

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

Great and Meaner Spirits

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

172

The great heavens have no voice ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

380

The Great Incurable

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

166

       

The Hard Lot of the Courtier

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

185

Hark how round you the instruments sound ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

258

Hast thou remembered me at last, my own ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

274

Here there is light, — is it darkness ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

381

The Hero's Touch

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

204

He whom I woo makes with me no abiding ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

269

Hide now thy face, O darling white ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

252

The High and Difficult Road

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

187

How could I know that he was waiting ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

273

How many aeons hast thou flowed ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

375

How much thou didst entreat...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

273

How shall I tell of Caanou's beauty ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

229

The Human Cobra

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

183

The Human Herd

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

166

Hymn to the Mother: Bande Mataram

Bankim Chandra

Bengali

309,313

       

I did not dream, O love, that I...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

275

If the heart's hope were never satisfied ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

268

I have no art of speech, no charm ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

362

I have seen a girl no words can measure ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

246

I know him by the eyes ...

Horn Thakur

Bengali

282

I lean to thee a listening ear ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

359

Ill Luck

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

197

The Immutable Courage

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

195

In elder's eyes' she brooks not stay ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

224

In her beautiful face did use ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

236

In the spring moonlight the Lord of love ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

259

In this hushed evening on thy billows ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

379

Into the hollow of whose hand my heart...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

274

In true sweet love what more ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

275

In vain my hands bale out the waves ...

Jnanadas

Bengali

292

Invocation

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

161

I said in anger, "When next time he prays ..."

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

272

I saw not to the heart's desire ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

238

I will lay bare my heart's whole flame ...

Jnanadas

Bengali

297

       

Karma

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

200

King and Devotee

Nishikanto

Bengali

388

       

Lakshmi

Dilip K. Roy

Bengali

385

Lighting small lamps and in a little room ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

378

The light of the young dawn ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

369


 

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Title or First Line 

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

Line not with these dark rings ..."

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

267

Lion-Heart

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

174

A little and a little now ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

225,261

A Little Knowledge

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

165

Lolita, say ...

Horu Thakur

Bengali

280

Long gazing on this dawn and restless sea

C. R. Das

Bengali

360

Look, Lolita, the stream one loves so ...

Horu Thakur

Bengali

281

Lotus bosom, lotus feet...

Bidyapati

Bengali

249

Love, but my words are vain as air ...

Chandidas

Bengali

301

Love-Mad

Nammalwar

Tamil

400

Love's Folly

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

163

Low on her radiant forehead shone ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

263

       

Magnanimity

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

175,206

Mahalakshmi

Anilbaran Roy

Bengali

387

Mainak

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

176

The maned steeds in the mountain glen ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

234

Man Infinite

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

206

The Man of High Action

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

194

The Man of Knowledge

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

168

Man's Will

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

210

The Middle Sort

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

163

The Might of Works

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

199

A Miracle

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

178

Misuse of Life

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

201

The moonwhite maiden from her bath ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

239

Mother India

D. L. Roy

Bengali

383

A Mother's Lament

Ramayana

Sanskrit

7

The Motion of Giants

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

176

Mountain Moloy

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

193

My eyes are lost in thine ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

268

My heart wings restless ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

364

My sleepless midnight thou hast filled ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

377

       

The Narrow Way

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

173

Natural Enmities

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

186

Natural Qualities

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

209

The Nature of Beneficence

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

190

Nay, nay, let be! O not today that sound ..

C. R. Das

Bengali

3-74

Nay, though thy absence was a tardy fire ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

272

Neat-herdess, my star ...

Jnanadas

Bengali

295

A new Brindaban I see ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

256

The New Creator

Aruna

Bengali

392

The Noble Nature

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

187

Noble Resentment

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

176

Noblesse Oblige

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

208


 

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Translations: Title Index

Title or First Line 

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

None is awake in all the world but I...

C. R. Das

Bengali

373

Now and again a sidelong look ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

221

       

O beauty meant all hearts to move ...

Jnanadas

Bengali

289

Obstinacy in Folly

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

163

Obstinacy in Vice

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

164

O by long prayer, by hard attempt ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

380

Odyssey [Opening lines of Book One]

Homer

Greek

409

O fondly hast thou loved ...

Horu Thakur

Bengali

283

O friend, my friend, has pain ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

232

O happy day that to mine eyes betrayed .

Bidyapati

Bengali 

241,264

O heart, my heart, a heavy pain is thine ,

Chandidas

Bengali

304

O high stark Death, ascetic proud ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

367

O life is sweet but youth more bright...

Bidyapati

Bengali

248

O loud blind conqueror ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

368

O love, what more shall I, shall Radha ..

Chandidas

Bengali

302

On A Satyr and Sleeping Love

Plato

Greek

411

O now today like a too brilliant dream ..

C. R. Das

Bengali

365

On the Same

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

164

O painter, thou thy marvellous art...

C. R. Das

Bengali

364

Ornaments

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

194

O thou unhoped-for elusive wonder ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

359

O today in heaven there rings high ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

370

       

A Parable of Fate

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

196

Playing she plays not, so newly shy ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

223

Poets and Princes

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

168

Policy

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

180

The Power of Company

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

188

The Power of Goodness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

204

The Praises of Knowledge

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

169

The Prayer to Mammon

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

178

Pride of Littleness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

165

Protection from behind the Veil

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

200

The Proud Soul's Choice

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

206

       

The Rain-lark to the Cloud

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

181

Rarities

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

171

A Rarity

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

203

The Rarity of the Altruist

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

207

Realities

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

184

The Real Ornament

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

169

Remonstrance with the Suppliant

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

181

The Roots of Enjoyment

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

209

A Rose of Women

Meleager

Greek

411


 

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Title or First Line

Author or Text 

Language

Page

       

The Script of Fate

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

198

Season of honey when sweets combine ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

257

The Self-Reliance of the Wise

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

195

Seven Griefs

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

184

She looked on me a little ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

243

A shining grace the damsel's face ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

237

Since thou hast called me ...

Sahana

Bengali

390

The Slaying of Dhumraksha

Ramayana

Sanskrit

24

The Slaying of Jarasandha

Mahabharata

Sanskrit

50

Sleep, sleep through clouded moons ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

371

The Softness and Hardness of the Noble

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

188

Speech of Dussaruth to the Assembled States-General of His Empire

Ramayana

Sanskrit

5

The Splendid Harlot

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

210

The spring is here, sweet friend ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

271

Statesman and Poet

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

208

Still in the highways wake nor dream ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

253

The Strength of Simple Goodness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

200

The sunbeams fall and kiss thy lips ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

374

The sun has not yet risen ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

373

Sweet and strange as 'twere a dream ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

231

Sweet, gaze not always on thine own face

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

269

       

This is not now the lyre's melodious ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

366

This shore and that shore, — I am tired ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

382

Thou hast come back, 0 Lord ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

368

The Three Blessings

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

189

" 'Tis night and very timid ..."

Bidyapati

Bengali

251

Today the heavens are sealed ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

366

To Lesbia

Catullus

Latin

411

To the Rain-lark

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

182

The Transience of Worldly Rewards

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

211

The Triple Way of Wealth

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

179

True Wealth

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

168

Truth

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

205

Two Kinds of Friendship

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

185

Two Kinds of Loss

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

179

       

Uma

Dilip K. Roy

Bengali

386

The Universal Religion

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

172

Upon a thorn when the flowers bloom ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

244

Upon what bosom shall I lay my bliss ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

361

The Upstart

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

185

The Uses of High Standing

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

181

       

Vidula

Mahabharata

Sanskrit

61


 

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Title or First Line

Author or Text

Language

Page

       

Virtue and Slander

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

183

       

Water and Milk

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

191

The Waverer

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

207

The Way of the Lion

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

174

The Ways of the Good

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

189

Wealth of Kindness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

189

Wealth the Sorcerer

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

178

What are these wheels ...

Horu Thakur

Bengali

284

What else have I to give thee ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

268

What is this play thou playest...

C. R. Das

Bengali

363

What years, what clime ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

376

The Wheel of Life

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

175

When the hour of twilight...

Bidyapati

Bengali

247

When the young warm Love ...

Bidyapati

Bengali

250

When thy enormous wind has filled ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

367

Where have I seen thee ...

C. R. Das

Bengali

372

Wherever her twin fair feet found room

Bidyapati

Bengali

245

Who is this with smeared limbs

Horu Thakur

Bengali

279

Why fell her face upon my sight...

Bidyapati

Bengali

235

Why gazing in the glass I stand ...

Nidhu Babu

Bengali

269

The Wife

Ramayana

Sanskrit

9

Woman's Heart

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

205

The Words of the Wise

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

208

Work and Idleness

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

195

Worldly Wisdom

Bhartrihari

Sanskrit

170


 

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