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\nSen, Saroda Charan<\/b> a teacher in Jessore
\nZilla School; he was arrested on 29 August 1907 as manager of Sandhya.<\/i> (P.T.I.;<\/font><\/p>\n

A.B.T., p. 96) n 1:579<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSen, Upen<\/b> Upendranath Sen of Barisal. [From "Record of Yoga" MSS Nov. 1913-Oct. ’27]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSena<\/b> an Indian dynasty that ruled in Bengal in the llth and 12th centuries. The Sena
\nkings made Bengal a united and powerful kingdom, promoted Sanskrit learning and were the patrons of poets like Jayadeva.
\nSena rule in Bengal also brought about a marked revival of orthodox Hinduism. (Enc.Br.;D.I.H.)  14:331 1:22<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSen Gupta, <\/b>Naresh Chandra (1882-1964), professor of law at Dacca University and later at Calcutta University; author of about 60 books, which include not only books on law but also literary writings – essays, stories, dramas, novels, etc. In his earlier life he was a well-known Congress worker and took part in the agitation against the Partition of Ben- gal. Later he was president of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Party (1925-26), the Labour Party of India (1934), and other organi-
\nzations and committees. (S.B.C.) 1:161, 165<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSennacherib<\/b> (d. 681 Be), king of Assyria (704-681 BC)
\n, son of Sargon II. He rebuilt the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, and is probably the best known of the Assyrian kings because of the stories about him in the Bible. (Enc. Br.) a XIII: 44<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSeraj gunge Sirajganj, a town in Pabna
\ndistrict of Rajshahi division, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). (Enc. Br.) a 1:212, 216, 218, 327<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSeraphim<\/b> See<\/i> "Cherubim and Seraphim".<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSerbia<\/b> formerly a kingdom, now a constitu-
\nent (autonomous) republic of Yugoslavia. Its capital, Belgrade, is also the capital of Yugoslavia. Serbia is the largest of the Yugoslav republics. (Until 1914 it was generally spelled Servia.) (Col. Enc.;<\/font><\/p>\n

C.O.D.) Der: Serb; Serbian; Servian D 15:287, 295, 301, 375, 467, 502, 505 27: 469 XX: 147<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSergi<\/b> an Italian ethnologist to
\n<\/b>whom Sri Aurobindo refers when writing about the Aryan race. (A) Var: Serji  17:298 XV: 18 XVII: 37<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSeriphos’ <\/b>an island in the Aegean Sea, to<\/font><\/p>\n

which, according to a Greek legend, Danae
\nand her son Perseus drifted in a boat that had been set afloat on the sea without sail or oar. (A)  6: 1, 26, 174, 199<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nSerji<\/b> See<\/i> Sergi<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSermon on the Mount<\/b> a biblical collection of ethical sayings of Jesus of Nazareth. It occurs in Matthew, chapters 5-7, as a discourse addressed to his disciples and a large crowd of people to guide them in a life based on a new law of love, even towards enemies, as opposed to the old law of retribution. (Enc. Br.)  5: 366
\n–<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nServia(n)<\/b> See<\/i> Serbia<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSeshanaga<\/b> in Hindu mythology, king of the serpent race or Nagas, and of the infernal region called Patala. Seshanaga upholds the world on his thousand hoods and is the couch on which Vishnu sleeps during the intervals between creations. (Dow.)  27: 159<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShacoontala; <\/b> Shac(o)untala See<\/i> Shakuntala<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Shadowy Waters<\/i> a play (1900) by W. B. Yeats. (Ox. Comp.) a 9: 533<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShahjahan<\/b> (1592-1666), the fifth Moghul
\nemperor of India (1628-58); he is most renowned as the builder of the Taj Mahal.
\n(Enc.Br.;D.I.H.) D 1:315<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShahnameh<\/i> "Book of Kings", a celebrated work (1010) by the Persian epic poet Fir- dausi, in which the Persian national epic found its final and enduring form. Written for Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni, it is a poem of nearly 60, 000
\nverses, a history of the kings of Persia from mythological times to the mid-7th century (nearly a thousand years). (Enc. Br.) n 26: 233<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaibya’ <\/b>descendant of the Rishi Sibi. n 12:295<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaibya2<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> name of one of the two horses drawing the chariot of Sri Krishna.
\n(M.N.) a 8:29<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaibya3 <\/b>in the Mahabharata, <\/i> king of the country called Shibi. He was father-in-law of Yudhishthira, and in the great battle sided with the Pandavas.
\n(M.N.) D 4: 75<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaibya <\/b> Satyakama a Rishi named
\nSatyakama who was a descendant of Sibi. <\/b> D 12:295, 309 14:276<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaila<\/b> the main female character in Sarat
\nChandra’s novel Nishkriti.
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\nShaiva<\/b> follower of the cult of the god Shiva, one of the three principal forms of modern Hinduism (followers of the other two are called Vaishnavas and Shaktas). The Shaivas worship Shiva as the paramount deity and maintain that the other two deities of the Trinity, Brahma and Vishnu, are subordinate to Shiva or merely his aspects. There are several schools of modern Shaiva thought, ranging from pluralistic realism to absolute monism, but they all agree in recognizing three principles: pati<\/i> or God; pasu<\/i> or the individual soul; mdpdsa<\/i> or the bonds that confine the soul to earthly existence. The goal is set for the soul to get rid of the bonds and gain saivatva<\/i> (the nature of Shiva). (Enc. Ind.; Enc. Br.) Der: Shaivism;<\/font><\/p>\n

Shaivite a 3:226-27 4:46 9:245 14:81, 256, 316, 319 15: 165 17: 277, 279-82 22: 129-30, 443 23: 977 27: 299-300 XVII: 27 XVIII: 152<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaivya<\/b> In the text of the Gita, the name is Saibya (see<\/i> Shaibya3). D 8: 77<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShakas<\/b> See<\/i> Saka(s)<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShakespeare, William (1564-1616), English poet and dramatist, widely regarded as the greatest writer of all time. His plays, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries for a small repertory theatre, are today performed more often and in more countries than ever before. Ben Jonson’s prophecy that he "was not of an age, but for all time" has been mar- vellously fulfilled. The majority of scholars accept 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 heroic narrative poems as the work of Shakes- peare. (Enc. Br.) Der: Shakespearian D 1:156, 266, 601, 704, 906 2:222 3:69, 87, 93, 101, 106, 108, 156, 185-87, 217, 222, 230-31, 233-35, 248, 251-53, 263, 276, 282, 284-85, 417, 454 4: 190, 284 5: 43, 365-67, 586-87 7: 855 9: 6, 28, 30, 37, 44, 62, 64-68, 70-73, 78-80, 82, 92, 105-06, 111, 113, 141, 159, 161, 163, 168-75, 180, 191-92, 206, 226, 230, 246, 277-78, 281, 297, 302-05, 310-11, 313-14, 316, 333-34, 344, 358, 366, 368, 373, 378-79, 381, 387, 396, 407, 420-21, 425, 455, 472, 476-80, 485, 487, 495, 521-24.526, 540, 548, 551, 560 12: 30, 36-39, 41-42, 45, 470, 476-77, 481 14: 66, 192, 200, 219-20, 257, 304 17: 96.384 18: 299 22:395, 423, 445, 469, 496-97 23:520 24:1637 26:67, 134, 181, 238, 250-51, 262, 266, 310-11, 314, 320, 322-23, 325, 330-40, 346 27: 51, 80-81, 86, 89, 107, 207, 248, 261, 419 29: 744-45, 751, 757-58, 785, 795-96, 800, 802-03, 805, 807-08, 815 1:10-11, 27, 40, 42 II: 13, 15 IV: 109 VI: 198 VII: 49 IX: 42, 45 X: 114, 146, 158, 169, 172 XVII: 55
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\n <\/p>\n

\nShakra<\/b> a name of Indra. (Dow.)<\/font><\/p>\n

D [Indexed with Indra]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

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\nS(h)akta ‘ <\/b>worshipper of the Hindu supreme goddess, Shakti ("power", "energy"), also referred to as Devi. Shaktism is one of the three major forms of modern Hinduism. In popular worship Shakti is known by many names. In her beneficent aspect she is known variously as Uma, Parvati, and Ambika. In her fierce, destructive aspect she is repre-
\nsented as Kali and the demon-destroying Durga. Shaktism is especially popular in Bengal and Assam, and is inseparably related to Tantric Hinduism. (Enc. Br.) Der: Shaktism a 9: 245 13: 346 14: 137 15: 4 17: 269 22:39, 130 27: 459 IX: 26 XV: 29 XVII: 27 XVIII: 152<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShakuntala’ <\/b>in Hindu mythology, daughter of Vishwamitra by the nymph Menaka. She was abandoned in a forest and found by the Rishi Kanwa, who brought her up in his hermitage as his own daughter. The love, marriage, separation, and re-union of Sha-
\nkuntala and Dushyanta are the subject of Kalidasa’s drama Abhljnana Sakuntalam.
\n<\/i>(Dow.) Var: Shacoontala; Shacountala;<\/font><\/p>\n

Shacuntala a 2:399 3:231.280-81, 306 7: 748 14: 192 27: 150, 152 X: 166-67 XIII: 53<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShakuntala2<\/b> William Jones’ English translation (1789) of the story of Kalidasa’s Shakuntala (Abhljnana Sakuntalam)
\n–<\/i> one of the earliest Indie works translated into a Western language. Modern and Western interest in Kalidasa began with this transla-
\ntion. (Enc. <\/b> Br., Macro, Vol. 10, p. 376) a 27:163<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShakuntala<\/b> Abhljnana Sakuntalam, <\/i> "The Recognition of Shakuntala", the most fam-
\nous of Kalidasa’s dramas, usually judged the best Indian literary effort of any period.
\nSee also<\/i> Shakuntala’. (Enc. Br., Macro., Vol. 10) Var: Shacountala, Shacuntala
\na 3:<\/i> 94, 227, 240, 246, 251, 261-62, 287-88, 303, 323 9: 432 14: 47, 305 27: 101, 106 I:<\/b> 29
\nX:<\/b> 171, 175<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShalwa<\/b> (Salva), in the Mahabharata, <\/i> name of a country in western India; also the name of its king or its people. (Dow.) Der:<\/font><\/p>\n

Shalwaian a 8: 41 29: 403, 424, 428, 466<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShama’a<\/i><\/b> English quarterly magazine of art, literature, and philosophy edited by Mrina-
\nlini Chattopadhyaya and published from Madras. The second number of the magazine was reviewed by Sri Aurobindo in Arya.
\n<\/i>(A) a 17: 313, 323<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSham Babu<\/b> See<\/i> Chakravarti, Shyam Sundar<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nShambara<\/b> See<\/i> Sambara<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShams-ul-Alam<\/b> an Inspector and later Deputy Superintendent of the Bengal police
\n(C.I.D.). As the police officer assisting Barrister Norton, he played a leading part in the Alipore Bomb Case and in the investiga-
\ntion of two dacoities. In January 1910 he was shot dead in broad daylight within the pre- cincts of the Calcutta High Court by Biren-
\ndranath Datta Gupta. (A; P.T.I.; A.B.T.;<\/font><\/p>\n

C.W.N.-VII, p. 397) Var:
\n<\/b>Shamsul Alam
\n<\/b> 2:375, 377 4:260, 294, 296 26:62, 70<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShandilya<\/b> (Sandilya), the patronymic of several teachers who were descendants of Sandila. The most important of them is the sage cited several times as an authority in the
\nSatapatha Brdhmana.<\/i> (V. Index) a 12:442<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShandilya Upanishad<\/b><\/i> an Upanishad of
\n<\/b>the
\n<\/b>Atharva Veda.<\/i> (Up. K.)  20:358<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShani<\/b> See<\/i> Saturn<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShankar(a)’<\/b> See<\/i> Shankaracharya<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShankara2<\/b> a name of Shiva in his beneficent aspect or as chief of the Rudras. (Dow.) D [Indexed with Shiv(a)]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShankaracharya<\/b> (fl. 8th cent.), Indian philosopher and theologian, most famous exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school of philosophy called Mayavada (Illusionism). He is the source of many of the main cur- ents of modern Indian thought. A native of Kerala, his travels extended as far as Kashmir. He established several maths
\n<\/i>(monasteries). His writings include numerous commentaries on Hindu scriptures. Shankara died in the Himalayas at the early age of thirty-two. (Enc. Br.; Dow.) Var: <\/b>Sankar;<\/font><\/p>\n

Shankar(a) Der: Shankarites a i: 339, 537, 704, 714 3:110-12, 116, 173, 214, 222, 227, 338, 344, 369, 461 4: 43-44, 47-50, 90, 128-29, 143, 245, 328 5:153 8:212, 383 9:381 10:547 12: 33, 53, 63-64, 134, 264, 281, 284, 397-98, 407, 427-29, 433-34, 436-39, 457-61, 465-66, 470, 473-74, 510-11 13:78, 85, 301 14:21, 69, 71, 132, 136, 181, 191, 308-09, 359 16: 292, 428 17: 49, 68, 115, 165-66, 180, 182-83, 265, 267, 292-93, 383 18: 7, 415, 454, 461, 464 19: 763 20: 259 22: 39, 41-43, 50, 54-56, 62, 65-66, 82, 85, 92-93, 210, 381, 402-04, 407, 456 23: 529, 682 24:1388 25:61 26:81, 104, 106, 135-36, 163 27: 236, 240-41, 248, 256, 299, 301, 303-04, 310, 314, 318, 321-22, 456, 475 II: 63, 67, 71, 76-78 III: 80 IV: 163 VI: 156-57, 164-66, 173-77 VII: 3, 13 VIII: 168, 171-72, 178, 181, 185-86, 194 IX: 17-19, 29-30, 61 X: 159, 164 XIII: 9, 24 XIV: 120, 124, 127, 132-33, 138-39, 144 XV: 4, 43 XVI: 132, 184 XVII: 4, 24, 31, 33, 37, 41 XVIII: 152, 154-56<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

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\nShankaritola<\/b> See<\/i> Sankaritola<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShanks, Edward<\/b> an English poet of the early 20th century, 26: 345<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShantanu<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a king of the Lunar dynasty. He was the father of Bhishma, and in a sense grandfather of Dhritarashtra and Pandu. He was remark- able for his devotion and charity, modesty, constancy, and resolution. (Dow.)  3:190<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShantiniketan the seat of Visva Bharati
\nUniversity, founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1922. It was started as a children’s school in 1901. At present it is a Central Govern- ment university. The town of Shantiniketan
\nis in Birbhum district of West Bengal state, northwest of Bolpur. (Enc. Ind.)  3:431<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShantipur<\/b> Santipur, a town in Nadia district of Bengal (now West Bengal state), about fifty miles north of Calcutta. (S. Atlas)  l: 151<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSharabha<\/b> name of a Rishi of the Vedic period mentioned in the Rig-veda
\n<\/i>(VIII.100.6).  XIII: 60<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShanna<\/b> probably the same as the following entry, 27:455<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShanna, R. S<\/b>. a man who had been sent by Shyam Sundar Chakravarti to Motilal Roy in order to be introduced to Sri Aurobindo. He professed to be a nationalist and a devotee of Sri Aurobindo. Motilal accordingly sent him to Pondicherry, but Sri Aurobindo received a warning against him from within and refused to see him. He was undoubtedly a police-spy.
\n(L.toSl.;A) a 27:431<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSharmishtha<\/b><\/i> Michael Madhusudan’s first play, written in Bengali blank verse in 1858. It is a comedy based on an episode of the
\nMahabharata.<\/i> (Enc. Br.; N. B. A.) 03:%<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShamgava<\/b> a misprint for Sharngarava
\n(Sarrigarava), a disciple of the sage Kanva
\nin Kalidasa’s play Abhijndna Sdkuntalam. a<\/i> 3:231<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShatahrida<\/b> in the Ramayana, <\/i> name of the mother of the Raskshasa Viradha. (A) a 8:23<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShatakratu<\/b> an epithet of Indra, meaning "the god of a hundred rites". (Dow.) D 10: 508 VII: 37<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShatrughna’<\/b> in the Ramayana, <\/i> a son of King Dasharath by Sumitra; the twin-brother of Lakshmana and half-brother of Rama. (Dow.) a 8: 11<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\nShatrughna2<\/b> the code name of an associate of Sri Aurobindo who left Pondicherry on 11 June 1913. o XXII: 147<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShatudru <\/b>(Satadru or Satadru), in the
\nMahabharata, <\/i> a river of Punjab, now called the Sutlej; one of the five rivers within the frontiers of which the Aryans originally dwelt. It rises in the Himalayas and empties into the Indus.
\n(M.N.; A) Var: Shotodrou
\nn 5: 246 27: 156<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaudram<\/b> See<\/i> S(h)udra<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaukat probably, Mahmud Sevket Pasa
\n(1858-1913), Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent deposition of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and became grand vizier in January 1913. He was assassinated six months later. (Enc. Br.) n XXI: 65<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShaunaka a Rishi of the Bhrigu family; son of Sunaka. He was the head
\n(Kulapati) of the ashram at Naimisaranya (see<\/i> Naimisha). (M.N.) a 12: 269 VI: 136<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShauri<\/b> an epithet of Krishna, a descendant of Surasena, or simply Sura. It is also used forVasudeva, father of Krishna.
\n(M.N.;<\/font><\/p>\n

M.W.) Der: Shourian; Showrian n 8:57, 325, 352 27:83<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShavian<\/b> of, or in the manner of, George Bernard Shaw, the dramatist. Der:<\/font><\/p>\n

Shavianism D 9:548.553<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShaw<\/b>, Bernard George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), British writer, the most significant British playwright since the 17th century. His plays are permeated by his passion for social reform, though their prefaces are perhaps the best expression of his philosophy. Shaw was the recipient of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature. (Enc. Br.) D 9:427, 547-53 22:413 26:325<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShayesta Khan <\/b>Proconsul in Eastern Bengal & Assam, the "new province" formed in 1905. He followed a furiously repressive policy. It was met by determined resistance from the people, and Shayesta Khan was deposed in 1906. (A)
\na i: 132-33<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShazarath-al-Durr<\/b> a songstress, mentioned in Sri Aurobindo’s play The Viziers of Bassora.<\/i> a 7:599<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSheban of Sheba, an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Bible and elsewhere, supposed to be in southern Arabia. The Semitic colonization of Ethiopia was from Sheba, hence the Ethiopian tradition that Sheba was in Ethiopia (see<\/i> Sahavas). The Queen of Sheba (called Balkis in Arab tradition) is said in the Old Testament (1 Kings 10) to have visited Solomon.<\/font>
\n7: 578.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSheffield<\/b> county borough and city in West
\nRiding of Yorkshire, England. It is one of the leading industrial <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

\ncentres of England, having been the chief seat of cutlery manufacture since the 14th century. (Col. Enc.)
\na <\/b> 1: 704<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShela<\/b> (Saila), in Hindu mythology, a nymph of
\nheaven, a 5: 190<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShelley, <\/b> Mrs. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), daughter of William Godwin and second wife of P. B. Shelley. As a writer, she is best known as the author of
\nFrankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus
\n<\/i>(1818), perhaps the most widely known novel of terror. (Enc. Br.; Col. Enc.) D 9:527<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShelley, Percy Bysshe<\/b> (1792-1822), one of the greatest and, in his lifetime, most controversial of English romantic thinkers and poets. His reputation is based more firmly on the fresh imagery and subtle melody of his many short poems than on his longer works. (Enc. Br.; Col. Enc.) D 3:69, 80, 101.108, 147, 291.294 5:8, 61
\n9:<\/b> 2, 27, 53-54.74, 91-94, 100, 112.116, 125-26, 128-29, 131.133, 161-62, 171, 192, 246, 253. 273-75, 278, 304, 308, 320, 324, 331, 343, 359, 365, 378, 395-96, 421, 436-37, 472, 481, 521-22, 524, 526-29 22: 454 26: 233, 236, 256. 266-67, 320-23 27: 81, 86. 92, 156 29: 805-06 I: 9 11:12, 16 111:11 X: 141, 143-44<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShelley, Sir Timothy<\/b> father of the poet P. B. Shelley. (Col. Enc.) D 3: 69<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShelsford<\/b> probably Shelford, a town about two miles south of
\nCambridge, n 3: 65<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShepherd’s Week<\/b><\/i> a series of mock classical poems in pastoral setting, by John Gay, published in 1714. (Enc. Br.)
\na I: 11<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSheridan, <\/b> Richard Brinsley (Butler) (1751-1816), British playwright, impresario, orator, and politician noted for his comedies of manners, especially The School for Scandal<\/i> (1777). (Enc. Br.) 0 9:551<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSherlock Holmes<\/b> a fictional character, the famous private detective who figures in a number of works by A. Conan Doyle. He was familiarized to the public by his eccen-
\ntricities and mannerisms, his non-chalance
\nalternating with energy, his dressing gown and hypodermic syringe, as well as his amazing mental powers. (Ox. Comp.)  1: 376 9: 561<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSheva Ekiing<\/b> family deity of the royal families of Mewar and Udaipur. The temple<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\tof Ekiing built by Bappa Rawal is famous.  7:758, 762, 795, 810<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiah<\/b> one of the two major branches of Islam
\ndistinguished from the majority Sunni. In early Islamic <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nhistory it had been a political faction that supported the power of
\nAli, son-in-law of Muhammad and fourth caliph, over the Muslim community. It gradually developed into a religious movement. (Enc. Br.)  7: 704<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShik(h)andi<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> son of King Drupada. He was born as a girl and named Sikhandini, but his sex was later on changed by the Yaksha Sthunakarna.
\n(M.N.)  4:77, 228 8: 78 22: 447<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShillong<\/b> a city, formerly capital of Assam province. Presently it is the capital of the state ofMeghalaya. (Enc. Br.)
\n 1: 135-36, 217.322, 338, 345, 373, 403, 491 2: 23, 361 II: 85-86<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShini<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a Yadava hero in the line of Devamidha (father of Surasena
\nand grandfather of Vasudeva). (M.N.)
\nDer: Shinis (descendants of Shini)  3: 207 8: 59 IV: 115<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShintoism<\/b> ancient native religion of Japan, still practised in a form modified by the in- fluence of Buddhism and Confucianism. In its present form it is not so much a religion as a set of traditional rituals and customs involving pilgrimages to famous shrines and celebrating popular festivals. (Col. Enc.)
\n 1:67 .<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShishupal(a)<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> son of Damaghosa, King of Chedi, by Srutadeva, sister of Vasudeva. He was a cousin of Krishna, but became his implacable foe when Krishna carried off Rukmini, his intended wife. He was slain by Krishna at the Raja- suya sacrifice of Yudhishthira in punish- ment for his long shower of abuses at him (Krishna). (Dow.)  3:161, 190, 192, 194, 214 4: 93 8: 39 14: 372 24: 1334<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiv(a)’ "the auspicious one"; a name of the third deity of the Hindu Trinity; he is "the Eternal’s Personality of Force" represented mostly as "the pure and white, the ascetic, the still, contemplative Yogin". The name Shiva is not found in the Vedas; however, the name Rudra occurs both in the singular and the plural. This Rudra of the Vedas developed in the course of time into Shiva, considered in the Puranic tradition mainly as the destroying or dissolving Power. He has a third eye in the middle of the
\nforehead, a fiery glance from which once reduced<\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\nKamadeva to ashes. In his creative aspect he is represented as
\na Linga (phallus), symbolis- ing the’male procreative energy in nature. It is under the form of the Linga that Shiva is mostly worshipped. His abode is on Mt. Kailash, Parvati is his spouse and the Trisula
\n(the trident) his weapon. Of the numerous names of Shiva, those used by Sri Aurobindo and indexed here are: Hara; Mahadev(a);<\/font><\/p>\n

Maheshwara; Rudra; Shankara (A; Dow.) Var: Siva Der: Shivahood  1: 537, 892-95 2:148 3:105, 222, 226-27, 231, 243, 245, 278, 294, 309-12, 315, 384, 419-20, 428, 452 4: 1,
\n7, 34, 114, 165, 181, 288, 330 5: 73-74, 77, 83, 130, 140, 165, 302, 523, 546, 573, 579 6: 236, 243, 248, 283, 308 7: 986 8: 32, 44, 46, 56, 107, 118, 127, 131, 165, 206 10:333-34 11:3 12: 370-71, 375, 448, 478, 506-07 13: 38, 85, 272, 349 14: 137, 151, 153, 200, 204, 222, 232, 235, 312, 320 16:252, 278, 319, 360, 416-17 17:47-48, 59, 98, 142, 272, 279, 282, 378 18: 78, 82 20:365 21:561, 575, 708, 741 22:122, 173, 342, 390-91 23: 521, 796-97, 807, 973, 977, 1029 24: 1112, 1141 25: 76, 89, 94 26: 99, 193-94, 196, 307, 309, 356. 498 27: 103, 105, 169-70, 206, 317, 363 28: 247 29: 525 I: 20, 29, 41 111:66 IV: 149, 174, 191 V: 5, 7, 9, 12, 69 VI: 164, 193 VII: 5, 16 X: 144 XI: 14 XII: 174 XVI: 134 XVIII: 144, 146, 150 XIX: 54<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiva2<\/b> See<\/i> Subramaniya, S(h)iva<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiva<\/i> a poem in a new metre by Sri Aurobindo, composed by him on 6 November 1933 and first published in Six
\nPoems.<\/i> (A)  5:578 9:434 26:275<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShivadry<\/b> probably the Siwalik Hills, the southernmost belt of the Himalayan foothills. The range proper, to which the name Siwalik
\nwas formerly restricted, is the 200 miles of foothills from Hardwar to the Beas River. (Enc. Br.)
\n1:<\/b> 20<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShivaji <\/b>(1627\/30-1680), a Maratha ruler, social reformer, military leader, and ad- vocate of religious toleration. He was the founder of the independent Maratha king- dom of the Deccan against the might of Aurangzeb and the opposition of the Sultans of Bijapur and others. In 1674 he had him- self crowned at Raigarh as the independent king of Maharashtra.
\n(Enc.Br.;D.I.H.)
\nVar: Sivaji a 1: 127, 140, <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n147, 308, 380, 475, 613, 623, 739, 854 2:147, 221, 261, 411 3: 483-85 4: 96, 99, 129, 143, 147, 156 5: 279, 283, 285, 288-89, 293 12:484 14:191, 378, 380 17:350 26:25 27:51, 66-67, 353 1:4 III: 14 V: 4 IX: 1,
\n2<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShivaloka<\/b> the heaven of the worshippers of Shiva. The abode of Shiva is said to be on Mt. Kailash.  22:110 26:114<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiva Parana<\/i> one of the eighteen major Puranas, devoted to the praise of Shiva and consisting of twelve samhitas.<\/i> Var: Siva
\nPurana<\/i>  3:311-12 4:53<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShiva Singha
\n<\/b>(Rupnaraian) a name occurring in the Bengali poems of Bidyapati. He is described as the king of Mithila, and
\na friend
\nof the poet. (A) Var: Roupnaraian 8: 227-28, 236, 259, 263<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShivi (Sibi), <\/b>in the Mahabharata, <\/i> son of Ushinara, king of the country also called Ushinara, near Gandhara. Shibi was re- nowned for his charity and his protection of the weak. To test him, the god Agni assumed the form of a pigeon and Indra that of a hawk. The pigeon, pursued by the hawk, took refuge with King Shibi. The hawk would accept in lieu of the pigeon only an equal weight of the king’s own flesh. Shibi
\ncut piece after piece from his right thigh, but the pigeon remained heavier until the king offered his whole body to outweigh the pigeon. The gods thereupon revealed their true forms and blessed him. (Dow.; M.N.) 16: 210 22: 416 23: 790 III:
\n6<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShogun<\/b> title of the military dictators who from the 12th century to the 19th century were the actual rulers of Japan. The title itself dates back to AD 794 and originally meant commander of the imperial armies. The overthrow of the Shogun in 1867 marked the beginning of modern Japan.
\n(CoI.Enc.)  1:230, 568 15:352<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShoorasen in the Mahabharata, <\/i> name of a people and the region they inhabited. The modern name of the region is Braja (Man- data), the country around Mathura in U.P. The people migrated south out of fear of Jarasandha.
\n(M.N.; Dow.)  8:41<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShoorpa<\/b> Surpanakha, the sister of Ravana, in the Ramayana.<\/i> It is related that she was attracted by the beauty of Rama. When she made advances to him, Rama referred her to Laksmana, who in like manner sent her back to Rama. Enraged at
\nthis, Surpanakha fell upon Sita, whereupon, at Rama’s beckoning, Lakshmana cut off the Rakshasi’s nose and ears. (Dow.)  5:27<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nShotodrou<\/b> .See Shatudru<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShourian: Showrian<\/b> See<\/i> Shauri<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShrichand<\/b> (1494-1543), son of Guru Nanak, and founder of the Udasi sect of Sikhism.
\n 1:289<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShrutarvan(a) <\/b>in the Veda, a generous king, sonofRjksha. (A)  11:363, 365<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nS(h)ruti <\/b>” learni ng by hearing", a word that came to mean "revealed scripture", the most revered body of literature in Hinduism. Works of Shruti are considered divine re- velation, heard and transmitted by sages, as contrasted to Smriti, or that which is remembered. The revealed texts encom- pass the four Vedas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads. (Enc. Br.)  4:47.49, 53 10:8.19, 546 11:1, 16 12: 59, 264, 398, 429, 447, 452, 455, 460-61, 463-66, 468-70, 472-74, 477, 479, 484, 487, 489, 506-07 13: 81-82 14: 270 17: 166 27: 303-05, 322, 369 I: 42-43 II: 69, 78 VIII: 166-67.171, 180-81 IX: 17-18 XIV: 131, 133-36, 138, 160, 162 XV: 10 XVI: 133<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nS(h)udra<\/b> I. the lowest in rank of the Chaturvarnya of ancient India (see<\/i> Brahmin). The more undeveloped human
\ntype, unintel-
\nlectual, without force, incapable of creation or intelligent production, the man fit only for unskilled labour and menial sevice was classed as
\na Shudra. In later times this sec- tion of society began to be regarded as "un- touchable" and neglected, despised, and even maltreated by the higher castes. With the ushering in of the modern era of social reform, organizations like the Arya Samaj
\nworked assiduously for the uplift of the Shudras. Gandhi gave the new name "Harijans", literally meaning "people of Hari (God)". Under the British Government of India they were designated "scheduled castes and tribes" and were given special attention and concessions, which they still enjoy. 2. When Sri Aurobindo uses the term
\n"sudra" in the Record of Yoga, he does not refer to a certain social order (much less caste), but rather to "the Divine as service of obedience and work", "God descending entirely into the lower world and its nature". This is one of the four "types of active human personality and nature", all of which are present in varying degrees in every man. The aspect of the fourfold divine power
\n(Chaturvyuha) that corresponds to the Shudra is Aniruddha. Der: Shaudram, <\/b> i.e.
\nShudrahood; Shudrashakti<\/b>  1:125, 235, 301, 315, 537, 632 2:12-13, 84, 426 3:453 4:58, 98, 201, 268 5:85 11:451-52 13:321, 492-94, 498, 504-06 14: 111, 143, 146, 316, 348-51, 353, 355 15: 5, 7-8, 117-18, 340, 354, 464, 628 17:121, 211 21:714, 718-19 27:359-60, 363 11:61, 66 <\/b> III:<\/u>5 V:2 XVIII: 134 XIX: 5,
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\nShuka(deva)<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> son and disciple of Vyasa who taught him the Veda and the Mahabharata.<\/i> Shukadeva narrated the Bhagavata to<\/i> Parikshit.
\n(M.N.)
\nVar: Suka  3: 145 26: 351 VI: 136<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShukra<\/b> 1. in Hindu astronomy, the planet Venus (see Venus’). 2. in Hindu mythol-
\nogy, abbreviated name of Sukracarya, son of Bhrigu, and spiritual and political adviser of the Titans. (Dow.) Var: Sukra  17:259-62<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShunahshepa <\/b>(Ajigarti) a Rishi with the patronymic Ajigarti. According to a legend in the Aitareya Brahmana, <\/i> King Harish-
\nchandra had promised to Varuna the sacrifice of his son Rohit. Rohit purchased Shunah-
\nshepa to take his place as the sacrificial victim. Shunahshepa was in fact bound to the stake, but was released in time through the efforts of Vishwamitra. In the Rig-veda, <\/i> the only mention of Sunah-sepa is a statement of his deliverance from peril of death by divine help; the Yajur-veda<\/i> simply says that he was seized by Varuna but saved himself from Varuna’s bonds. (V. Index; M.N.)
\nVar: Sunahshepa  10:154, 368, 452, 454 11: 34, 205 20: 461 VII: 32, 35 XV: 49 XVI: 162-63<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShuncou in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a Kshatriya of the Yadava clan. He was a great hero.
\n(M.N.)  8:43<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShushna in the Rig-veda, <\/i> a demon associated with Vritra. He is a personification of impure and ineffective force. (Dow.; A) Var: Sushna
\n 10: 208, 238 11: 29, 341 II: 46 VIII: 149<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShwetashwatara<\/b> a Rishi to whom the Upa-
\nnishad of this name is attributed.  12: 32, 33, 381<\/font><\/p>\n

\nShwetashwatara (Upanishad)<\/i> an Upanishad of the Krsna (Black) Yajur-veda.<\/i> (Up. K.)
\n 12:29, 195, 423 VI: 170 VII: 42<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyam(a)’<\/b> (Syama), a name of Krishna meaning "of dark complexion". D [Indexed with Krishna]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyama2<\/b> (Syama), "of dark complexion"
\n(feminine), a name or form of the goddess Durga, used by Sri Aurobindo for Kali.
\n(Apte)  25:75<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyama<\/b> (Syama), a name commonly used in conjunction with Rama to denote any two persons, V: 80<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyamasundara<\/b> a name of Krishna, "beautiful dark one". (I & G) D (Indexed with Krishna]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyambazar<\/b> a locality in north Calcutta. It
\nis one of the oldest sections of Calcutta. 4: 291 
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nShyam (Sundar)<\/b> See<\/i> Chakravarti, Shyam
\nSundar<\/font><\/p>\n

ShyavasKwa (Atreya) a Vedic Rishi of the house of <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nAtri. Var: Shyavasva;<\/font><\/p>\n

Shyawashwa<\/b> n 10:273, 276, 280, 290, 292, 530 11:335-36 111:32 V: 23<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiam<\/b> the present kingdom of Thailand in Southeast Asia. Bangkok is its capital. Before 1939 and between 1945 and 1949 the kingdom was officially known as Siam in English-speaking countries. (Col. Enc.) 1: 261 2: 248 15:502 27: 122<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiberia<\/b> a vast area of the Asiatic U.S.S.R. Although it has no official standing as a territorial division, it is generally understood to comprise the Asiatic part of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, occupy- ing the northern third of Asia. (Col. Enc.)
\n 1: 580 15: 512 27: 123<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSibyl<\/b><\/i> a poem by A.E. in which "his power of expression, always penetrating, simple and direct, is at its best". (A) 9:532<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSicily<\/b> a former kingdom, presently an autonomous region of Italy, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Messina. This triangular island is the largest and most populous in the Mediterranean. (Col. Enc.)
\n 1:505 5:28, 33, 481, 510 9:193<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiddha(deva)<\/b> the second of the three highest types of the ten forms of consciousness in the evolutionary scale of man; the supreme Asura, who raises mind to the Tapas. (A; A &R, VI: 209)  VI: 184, 187, 190<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiddhar, Shair<\/b> a transcription error for Stair Siddhar, "a mysterious individual" who saw Sri Aurobindo early in 1914 and whom Sri Aurobindo took to be a Frenchman. In April Siddhar left Pondicherry for Bengal, where he associated with Shyam Sundar Chakra-
\nvarti, Liaquat Husain and other nationalists. In October he was deported from India as an undesirable alien. In November he was again deported from Port Said as being a Pales- tinian Jew. (A)  27:453<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiddharthti<\/b> See<\/i> Buddha<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSidgwick, <\/b> Henry (1838-1900), English philosopher and author remembered for his forthright ethical theory based on Utilitari-
\nanism. He was also a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. (Enc. Br.) 1: 427<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSidhpur<\/b> a small town, of some historical and religious importance, about seventy miles north of Ahmedabad in the former princely state of Baroda (now in the state of Gujarat). (A; S. Atlas)  27: 113, 116<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSidi Hossain<\/b> a Muslim name used by Sri Aurobindo to denote any person of that community, 16: 92<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSidney, Sir Philip<\/b> (1554-86), English courtier and poet. The ideal gentleman of his
\nage, a master of social graces, an idealistic politician, a military leader, learned in the arts and sciences, he was, after Edmund Spenser, the best writer of English prose and verse of his generation. Sidney was one of the lum-
\ninaries of the court of Queen Elizabeth I. (Enc.Br.)  5:343-44, 355, 358 17:82<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSidon <\/b>an ancient city on the coast of Phoe-
\nnicia, on the site of present-day Saida in Lebanon. (Col. Enc.; Web.)  5: 500 6: 13<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Siege ofMathura<\/i> title of a prose fiction mentioned in the Record of Yoga in a
\n"lipi" of 1912-13. [From "Record of Yoga" MSS Nov. 1913-Oct. ’27]<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSieurcaye, Mrs.<\/b> See<\/i> Aloyse Abelard<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSieyes, Emmanuel-Joseph <\/b>(1748-1836), churchman and constitutional theorist whose concept of popular sovereignty guided the French bourgeoisie in their struggle against the monarchy and nobility during the open- ing months of the French Revolution. Al- though Sieyes enjoyed fame as a theorist, his vanity and lack of oratorical skill reduced his political effectiveness. (Enc. Br.)
\n XVII: 4<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSigfrid<\/b> a proposed character – a Norwegian leader – mentioned in the Dramatis Personae of Sri Aurobindo’s incomplete play The House of Brut. <\/i>
\n 7:883<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSigiriya<\/b> a site in Central Province, Sri Lanka; the ruins of an ancient stronghold known as the Lion Mountain that was built on a high, steep-sided rock plateau. On the mesa’s several acres of ground Kasyapa I built a palace in AD 477 as a safeguard against his enemies. (Enc. Br.)
\n 14: 240-41<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSigurd*<\/b> the Icelandic form of the name
\nSiegfried, a great hero of Germanic myth- ology who killed Fafnir (see<\/i> Fafner). He is the ideal hero, brave and true. (Col. Enc.)
\n 10: 183<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSigurd2<\/b> a character in Sri Aurobindo’s play
\nEric.<\/i> a 6: 481, 539, 541, 557<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSikhism<\/b> a non-sectarian monotheistic religion founded by Guru Nanak in the late 15th century. The followers of this religion, most of whom are from the Punjab in north- west India, are called <\/b> Sikhs. The ninth and last guru of the Sikhs, Guru Govind
\nSingh, <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\ntransformed the peaceful Sikh community into a militant body determined to resist Mohammedan aggression and atrocities. The Sikhs accept the Adi Granth<\/i> as their one canonical scripture and their "living" Guru.
\n(D.I.H.)  1:198, 303.308, 394, 481, 815 2: 245 3: 331 4: 140, 171, 247 14: 125, 129, 132, 187, 319, 368, 378, 380 15: 18, 354 27:435 IX: 1,
\n2 XV: 62-63<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSimla<\/b> (now spelled Shimla) a hill-station in the lower Himalayas, administrative headquarters of the district of Simla, and capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh. From 1865 to 1939 it served as India’s summer capital. (Enc. Br.)  1: 400, 409-10, 491, 607, 627, 631 2: 23, 124, 255, 290<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSimois<\/b> a small river in northwestern Turkey, near ancient Troy; it is a tributary of the Scamander.
\n(M.I.)  5:391-92, 463<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSimon de Montfort<\/b> (c. 1208-65), Anglo- Norman statesman. Earl of Leicester; he led opposition to Henry III, and later instigated the Barons’ War (1263-67) and established the Great Parliament of 1265, in which the modem system of representation had its origin. (P.P.)  l: 46<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSimonides<\/b>  Simmonides of Ceos (c. 556- 468? Be), Greek lyric poet and epigramma-
\ntist. Only fragments of his work survive, but they contain some of the finest specimens of ancient Greek poetry. (Col. Enc.)
\n 3:235 1:24<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSimultala<\/b> a small town in central Bihar.  1: 397<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinai<\/b> Mount Sinai is a mountain on the triangular Sinai Peninsula, which is the easternmost part of Egypt. It is traditionally considered to be the mountain on which Moses received the Ten Commandments. However, some authorities deny this and suggest instead that the nearby Jebel Serbal
\nwas intended. (Col. Enc.) 5: 8 15: 425<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSind(h) the valley of the Indus below its confluence with the Jhelum. It witnessed the birth and collapse of a pre-historic civilization in about 3000 BC of which many relics have been discovered at Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, and other sites. Under British rule Sind was administered as a part of the Bombay Presidency until April 1936, when it was made into a separate province having Karachi as its capital. After the par- tition of India in 1947 Sind became a part of Pakistan.
\n(D.I.H.) a 1:645 3:215 26: 409 XVIII: 136<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSindhia<\/b> See<\/i> Scindia<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\nSindhu’<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a country along the River Indus (which is also known as the Sindhu in Sanskrit). Its inhabitants also were called Sindhus. Jayadratha was a king of this country.
\n(Dow.;M.N.)  3:191 8:61, 63, 67, 69, 71<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSindhu2<\/b> ancient name of the River Indus, mentioned in the Rig-veda, <\/i> Panini’s Asfd-
\ndhyayi, <\/i> Patanj all’s Mahdbhasya, <\/i> etc. (Enc. Ind.)  4:98 10:99 IX: 1,
\n2<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSindhu Sauvira<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a country or region of northwestern India.
\n(M.N.)  3: 193<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinghal<\/b> a name of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). Ceylon is an English word derived from the Sanskrit Simhaladvipa, meaning "Island of the Singhalese". The island was so named by VIJAYA’
\n, perhaps because it abounded in lions ("simha" in Sanskrit). (Enc. Br.;M.W.;D.I.H.)
\n 5:263<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinhachalam<\/b> Simhachalam, a small town in the state of Andhra Pradesh, about six miles from Waltair.
\n(T.T.)  14:217<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinnet A. P.<\/b> Sinnett, editor of an influential daily newspaper The
\nPioneer, <\/i> who was con- verted to theosophy on witnessing one ofths
\nmost famous of Mme Blavatsky’s miracles, which took place during a picnic. Sinnett has recorded several such phenomena in his books Esoteric Buddhism<\/i> and The Occult
\nWorld, <\/i> which introduced theosophy to Europe. After the death of Mme Blavatsky, Sinnett became one of the leaders of theo-
\nsophical thought. (Enc. Unex., p. 250; Enc. Am., 26: 524) D XIII: 29<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinn Fein<\/b> a 20th-century patriotic movement and party in Ireland, aiming at national revival in language etc. as well as political independence, and professing a Socialist, anti-Capitalist ideology. Arthur Griffith was the father of the movement. The symbolic meaning of Sinn Fein is "Irish Ireland". (Col. Enc.; C.O.D.; Enc. Br.)
\n l: 368, 501 26: 17-18, 26 XVII: 67-68<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinnis<\/b> misspelling of Sinis, a legendary robber who haunted the Isthmus of Corinth and killed his victims by tying them to the top of two pine trees which he bent down and then allowed to fly up. He was destroyed by Theseus.  5: 35<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSipahidar<\/b> a man who, in conjunction with Sardar Assad, brought about the Persian Revolution in the beginning of the 20th century. (A)  2: 118<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSircar, Mahendra<\/b> Mahendranath Sircar<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\n(1882-1954), well-known professor of philosophy at Presidency College and later at Calcutta University; author of Eastern Lights.<\/i> His other works include studies of Vedantic thought and Hindu mysticism.
\n(S.B.C.)  26: 383<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSirgavkar, Raoji<\/b> an officer in the service of Baroda state around 1903; he was fined Rs. 105\/- by the Maharaja for negligence of duty. (A) 1: 193<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSirioth<\/b> name used by Sri Aurobindo for the Angel of Love. (A)  5:69-71 7:901<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSirish<\/b> probably Srishchandra Ghosh, a young man of Chandernagore closely con- nected with Barindra Kumar Ghose. It was Srish who masterminded the smuggling into Alipore Jail of the revolvers that killed the approver Narendranath Goswami in August 1908. In February-March
\n1910, Srish
\nassisted Sri Aurobindo during his stay in Chandernagore, and on 31 March helped him get to Calcutta en route to Pondicherry. He seems to have visited Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1920.
\n(A;A&R, XVII: 110, 116)  27:485, 488, 493-94<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSinus or Dog Star, the brightest star in the heavens, somewhat larger than the Sun and having a considerably higher surface tem- perature. It is a white star in the constella-
\ntion Canis Major (the Great Dog). Its dis-
\ntance from the solar system is about 8.6 light-years. (Col. Enc.; Enc. Br.)  12: 475 XVII: 44<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSir Patrick Spense<\/b> the subject of a famous Scottish ballad written in the 16th century by an unknown poet. Spens (as the name is most commonly spelled) was a Scottish nobleman put in charge of a ship by the king.  9: 316<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSisyphus<\/b> in Greek legend, son of Aeolus
\nand king of Corinth. Because of his disrespect for Zeus, he was condemned to push a huge stone up a steep hill in Tartarus and begin again when it rolled down – an unend- ing task. (Pears, p. H37; Col. Enc.; C.O.D.) Var: <\/b> Sysiphus (perhaps a misspelling)
\n 13:312 21:650<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSita<\/b> the heroine of the Ramayana.<\/i> She was the daughter of Janaka, king of Videha (or
\nMithila), and wife of RAMA’, who won her by lifting up and breaking the great bow of Shiva. She accompanied her husband in his exile. Ravana carried her off and kept her in his palace in Lanka till she was traced and rescued by Rama. Sita is the ideal of a Hindu wife, and is worshipped alongside<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\tRama as an Avatar. Her other common names are Janaki, Vaidehi, and Maithili. (Dow.)  2: 399 3: 175, 178, 428 5: 27 8: 9-10, 13, 15-16, 18-22 12: 483 14: 48, 192-93, 197, 290, 292 17: 257 22: 415-16, 418 27: 154 III: 6 IX: 40<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

\nPage-298<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n
\n

\nSitaram Sitaram Roy (<\/b>1757\/58-?), a zamindar of East Bengal who raised an army and, challenging the authority of the Muslim Nawab of Bengal, declared himself king. The Nawab tried and failed several times to subjugate him. Some time later,
\nhowever, Sitaram took to a life of luxury, which led to the dissolution of his "kingdom". This gave the Nawab an occasion to invade his village and take him prisoner. During the period of his rule Sitaram had built a number of temples and tanks. Bankim Chandra has immortalised Sitaram by choosing him as the hero of a novel and naming it after him.
\n(S.B.C., p.555)  1:22<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSitaram<\/i> title of a Bengali novel (1886) by Bankim Chandra named after its hero. It is a marital tangle and a struggle of Hindus against Muslim tyranny. (Enc. Br.) Q 3: 91<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiva<\/b> See<\/i> Shiv(a)<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiva, Subramaniya<\/b> See<\/i> Subramaniya, S(h)iva<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSivaji<\/b> See<\/i> Shivaji<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSiva Purana<\/i><\/b> See Shiva Purana<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSix Oxford Thinkers<\/i> title of a book by Algernon Cecil. (A)  2:30<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSix Poems<\/b> Six Poems of Sri Aurobindo, <\/i> a collection published in 1934, with notes by the author and parallel translations in Ben- gali by different disciples of Sri Aurobindo. (I & G)  5: 585 9: 434 26: 274<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSkanda<\/b> See<\/i> Kartikeya<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSkylark’ To a Skylark, <\/i> a poem by Wordsworth, 29: 809<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSkylark1 To the Skylark, <\/i> one of Shelley’s finest lyrics, written at the end of 1819. (Ox. Comp.)  9: 378, 395, 526-29 26: 236<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSlav<\/b> one of a race spread over most of eastern and southeastern Europe, and also across northern Asia as far as the Pacific Ocean. The Slavs constitute a large ethnic and linguistic group whose languages belong to the Slavic or Slavonic branch of the Indo- European family. They include the Russians, Bulgarians, Illyrians, Poles, Silesians, Pomeranians, Bohemians, etc. (C.O.D.;<\/font><\/p>\n

Col. Enc.) Der: Slavic; Slavism; Slavonic;<\/font>
\nSlavonicised  l: 526, 881 2: 169, 383 10: 553 14: 375 15:
\n286, 294-95, 373, 410-11, <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\n502, 512-14 16: 275, 310 17: 196 IV: 161 XVI: 182<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"The Slaying of Congress"<\/b> a tragedy in three acts written by Sri Aurobindo and first pub- lished in the daily and weekly Bande Mataram<\/i> in February 1908. (A)  l: 671<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSlaying of Shisupala<\/b> the title (translated into English) of the Sanskrit epic poem Sisupala-
\nvadha<\/i> by the poet Magha. The poem is in twenty cantos, and is named after its subject. (Dow.)
\n 1:25′<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSlough of Despond state of hopeless floundering in sin. The phrase is taken from Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s
\nProgress, <\/i> a religious allegory recounting how in a dream Christian journeyed from the City of Destruction through the Slough of Despond, the Valley of Humiliation, the Valley of the Shadow of Death, etc. to the Celestial City. (C.O.D.) 23: 789 24: 1634 26: 465<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmart, Christopher<\/b> (1722-71), English religious poet, chiefly famous for
\nA Song to David<\/i> (1763); he is noted for flashes of childlike penetration and vivid imagination. In some respects his work anticipates that of William Blake and John Clare. (Enc. Br.)
\n n: 11<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmerdas <\/b>a character – a merchant of Babylonia, wrecked on the coast of Syria – in Sri Aurobindo’s play Perseus the
\nDeliverer, <\/i>6: 3, 16-20, 85-94, 105-08, 110, 112, 180, 186, 188-89<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmiles, Samuel<\/b> (1812-1904), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help.
\n<\/i>He was a zealous advocate of material prog-
\nress based on individual enterprise and free trade. (Enc. Br.)  III: 8, 14<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmith, Adam<\/b> (1723-90), Scottish social philosopher and political economist re- nowned for his major work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations<\/i> (1776). (Enc. Br.)
\n 1: 704<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmith, John<\/b> name used by Sri Aurobindo to denote any person, particularly one belong- ing to an English-speaking country. (A) 19: 816 22: 406, 451<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmith, Joseph (1805-44), American religious leader and prophet whose revealed writings, along with the Bible, comprise the theologi- cal foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon Church. (Enc. Br.)
\n 22: 417<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmith, Lockhart<\/b> one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the European and Anglo- Indian Defence Association held at Calcutta in April 1908. (A)  1:827-28<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

\nPage-299<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n
\n

\nSmith, Vincent<\/b> Vincent A. Smith, an
\nEnglishman, a retired member of the I.C.S., and a historian of India. He was a solid and well-equipped scholar and historian but less convincing as an art-critic. He found little to praise in the Vedantic art of India.
\n(S.F.F.;<\/font><\/p>\n

A)  2: 396<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmithfield<\/b> an area in the north of the city of London famous for its meat market. The market existed in 1183 and the site was also used for jousting, executions and the ancient Bartholomew Fair. (Enc. Br.)  12: 485 17: 170<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSmriti(s) <\/b>the class of Hindu sacred literature based on human memory, as distinct from Vedic literature, which is considered to be Shruti, or revealed. Smriti literature elaborates, interprets, and codifies Vedic thought, but being derivative is considered less authoritative than Shruti. It included the Kalpa Sutras, the Puranas, the two great epics, etc. In time, however, the term Smriti
\ncame to refer particularly to the texts re- lating to law and social conduct, such as the celebrated Manu-smriti<\/i> and Yajnavalkya-
\nsmriti.<\/i> (Enc. Br.) Var: Smrti Der:<\/font><\/p>\n

Smritikaras (writers of Smritis)  2: 120 3: 120 4: 53 12: 430, 452-53, 461 16: 420
\nIII: 55 VIII: 166, 182, 187 XVI: 133<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSn.<\/b> See<\/i> Saurin<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nS.N.B.<\/b> In the Record of Yoga, it refers to
\nSurendra Nath Banerji<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSnort<\/b> misspelling of Short. See<\/i> "Codlin’s
\nthe friend, not Snort"  1: 283<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSobhari (Kanva) (Sobhari Kanva), a Vedic Rishi, descendant of Kanva.  11:323, 328, 374, 376<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSocial Reformer<\/b><\/i> See (Indian)
\n<\/b>Social
\nReformer<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSocinian<\/b> a sect of Christianity following the doctrines of the 16th-century Italian theologians Laelius and Faustus Socinus, whose opinions resemble those of modern Unitarians, denying the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, the natural immortality of man, etc. and explaining sin and salvation rationalis-
\ntically. Socinian groups survived in Europe until the 19th century, primarily in Transyl-
\nvania, the Netherlands, and Germany. (C.O.D.;Web.;Enc.Br.)  15:14<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSocrates<\/b> (c. 470-399 BC) , Greek philosopher of Athens, the first of the great trio of ancient Greeks-Socrates, Plato and Aristotle \u2014 who laid the philosophical foundation of Western culture. He wrote nothing himself. His life and teachings have<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nbeen recorded in certain dialogues of his disciple Plato and in the Memorabilia<\/i> of
\nX’enophon. Great as is the importance of Socrates’ contribution to philosophy, he will always be remembered chiefly as one of those spiritual leaders to whom philosophy was a way of life, as exemplified by his maxim "Know thyself. (Enc. Br.; Col. Enc.) Der: Socratic<\/font><\/p>\n

3: 25-26, 72, 438 9: 561 15: 165, 339 16: 203, 339, 362 18: 225 22: 473-74, 478 26: 237 27:281 IX: 42-43 X: 113 XVI: 141 XVII: 10<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSofia<\/b> city and capital of Bulgaria, in west- central Bulgaria, on a high plain at the foot oftheBalkans.
\n(CoI.Enc.)  <\/b>XXI: 4<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSofronia<\/b> a character – the student Geronimo’s sister – in Sri Aurobindo’s play
\nThe Maid in the Mill.<\/i>  7: 876<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSogdiana<\/b> part of the ancient Persian empire in Central Asia between the Oxus and Jax-
\nartes rivers, corresponding to the later emir- ate of Bukhara and region of Samarkand. (Col. Enc.)  6: 380<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoham Gita<\/b> a philosophical poem in Bengali written and published by Shyamakanta
\nBanerji (Soham Swami). (A)  2: 174<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoham Swami<\/b> name taken by Shyamakanta
\nBanerji (see<\/i> Banerji, Shyamakanta) after renouncing worldly life. (A)  2: 174<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSohrab and Rustam<\/b><\/i> a vivid narrative poem (1853) by Matthew Arnold, based on an episode taken from FIRDAUSI’S Shah-nameh.
\n<\/i>(Col. Enc.; Ox. Comp.)  9:456<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSolar dynasty<\/b> or Solar line<\/b> or Solar
\nrace, <\/b> the lineage of Kshatriyas which sprang from Ikshwaku, the grandson of the Sun. It had two branches. The elder branch, which reigned at Ayodhya and to which RAMA’ belonged, descended from Ikshwaku through his eldest
\nson, Vikukshu. The younger branch, reigning at Mithila, descended from another of Ikshwaku’s sons named Nimi. Some Rajput princes like the Ranas of
\nMewar and the Pratihara kings of Kanauj
\ntraced their descent from one or the other. (Dow.;D.I.H.)  12:295, 305 13:137-38<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSolar world<\/b> the sun-world (or Siiryaloka
\nof Hindu mythology), a region or space supposed to exist round the sun, constituting a heaven of which the sun is regent.
\n(M.W.) D 12:310 11:79<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoldan<\/b> the Sultan of Egypt. (Web.)  7:598<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

\npage-300<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n
\n

\nSolomon<\/b> (fl. mid-lOth cent. Be), king of the ancient Hebrews (c. 972 – c. 932 Be), son
\nand successor of David, traditionally regarded as the greatest king of Israel. Solomon’s wisdom is proverbial. (Enc, Br.;<\/font><\/p>\n

\nCoI.Enc.) 5:366, 586<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoma in the Veda, Lord of Delight and Immortality, also known as Indu and Vena, He was the god who represented and animated the Soma-juice (or Soma-wine), an Indian Dionysus or Bacchus. In later times, the name was appropriated to the moon. In Puranic mythology, Soma, as the Moon, is commonly said to be the son of the Rishi
\nAtri by his wife Anasuya. (See also
\n<\/i>Chandra and<\/i> Moon) (A;Dow.) n [Note: the word Soma where it means merely the Soma-plant or the Soma-wine has not been indexed] 4: 40 9: 235 10: 5, 56, 69, 80, 98-99, 106, 136, 138-39, 141-43, 146, 185, 221-23, 229, 231, 235, 249, 284, 339, 342-43, 345-47, 377, 426, 438, 522, 539-41 11: 22, 31, 98, 446, 455, 466, 469 13:374 14:277 17:278 21:708 22: 110-11 I: 32, 34 IV: 131, 143 X: 180-82 XIII: 56 XIV: 114 XV: 56 XVIII: 181-82 XXI:17, 45<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomadutta in the Mahabharata, <\/i> a hero in the line of Kuru; son of Vahlika and grand- son of Pratipa.
\n(M.N.) 4:76 8:77<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomahuti Bhargava<\/b> a Vedic Rishi, descendant of Bhrigu.  11:90<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomaka<\/b> in the Veda, son of Sahadeva; in the
\nMahabharata, <\/i> he is mentioned as grand- father of Drupada and king of Panchala
\n(Pancala), who transmitted his name to his descendants.(M.N.; Dow.) Var:
\n<\/b>Someque
\n 8:43 11: 197<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomaliland<\/b> name historically applied to the area now comprising Somalia and Afars and
\nIssas, the coastal region of the most easterly section of Africa. (Enc. Br.) 1-1 15:502<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomaranes<\/b> in Sri Aurobindo’s Ilion, <\/i> one of Penthesilea’s captains.
\n(M.I.)  5:455, 517<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomdeva<\/b> Somadeva Bhatta (fl. llth cent.), the writer or compiler of the collection of stories called Kathdsaritsagara.<\/i> He lived in Kashmir. (Dow.; D.I.H.) D 6:205<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomeque<\/b> See<\/i> Somaka<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSomers, <\/b>Lord John Somers (1651-1716), 1st Baron Sommers, English jurist and statesman who presided over the framing of the Declaration of Rights (1688). In 1697, he was knighted, became Lord Chancellor and was created Baron. He fell from power when the Tones won control of the government in 1710.
\n(CoI.Enc.)  2:404<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nSomitinjoy<\/b> in the Mahabharata, <\/i> one of the seven great heroes of the Yadavas of Dwaraka.
\n(M.N.)  8:43<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSonar Bangia<\/i> <\/b>"Golden Bengal", a very effective pamphlet denouncing the Govern- ment and exhorting the people of Bengal to stand united, distributed through the Bar Associations of the districts in 1906. It was written by Basudeb Bhattacharji, the sub-editor of
\nSandhya, <\/i> and printed at Keshab Press. (H.F.M.L; A.B.T.) 1: 159, 186, 430<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSonar<\/b> Tan<\/i> "The Golden Boat", a p’oem
\n(1893) by Rabindranath Tagore. (Enc. Br.)  3: 431<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSonghad<\/b> -name of a taluka<\/i> in the former princely state of Baroda. Now, spelled Songadh, it is a town west of Bhavnagar in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat state. (Atlas)
\na XV: 72 (Songadh Vyara), 76<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSongs of the Sea C.<\/i> R. Das’s Bengali poems,
\nSagar Sangit, <\/i> translated by Sri Aurobindo around 1912, and first published in 1923. (I&G)  8:357 26:240, 252-53 29:787<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSongs to Myrtilla1<\/i> <\/b> a poem (1890-92) by Sri Aurobindo. <\/b> 26:<\/b> 263-64<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSongs to Myrtilla1<\/i> the first collection of Sri Aurobindo’s poems, published in 1895 "for private circulation" at Baroda. The authorized (trade) edition of the book was published by Arya Publishing House, Calcutta in 1923. Both editions contain twenty-one poems, all except five written between 1890 and 1892 while Sri Aurobindo was a student at Cambridge. The collection is named after its first poem. (I & G)
\n 4: pre. 26: 5, 12<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSonnets<\/b> of<\/i> Shakespeare, published in 1609. The collection contains 154 sonnets which refer cryptically to various persons – par- ticularly a handsome young
\nman, a dark woman, and a rival poet – whose identity, if they were real, remains the object of specu-
\nlation. (Enc. Br.)  3:230-31<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSophist(s)<\/b> a class of Greek professional lecturers, writers, and teachers in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, most of whom travelled
\nabout the Greek-speaking world giving instruction to young men in return for fees. They prepared their pupils for success in public life through training in the art of speaking, in the appreciation and use of reasoned arguments in public debate, and in a wide range of humanistic studies. (Enc. Br.) 3: 30 15: 177 16: 335, 339<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSophocles<\/b> (c. 497-406 BC) , one of the three great tragic playwrights of classical Greece. He wrote some 123 dramas, only seven of which have survived. Of the relation of his art to that of his great <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

\nPage-301<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\n\n\n
\n

\ncontemporaries, Sophocles said that Aeschylus composed correctly without knowing it, Euripides portrayed men as they were, and he himself painted men as they ought to be. (Enc. Br.;<\/font><\/p>\n

Col. Enc.) Der: Sophoclean 3: 147, 276 9:152, 379, 521, 530 14:66 15:91, 339 29:765, 814 X: 114, 157<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSorley, Prof.<\/b> William Ritchie Sorley (1855- 1935), professor of logic and philosophy, moral sciences, or allied subjects at various institutions. In 1900 he succeeded his teacher Henry Sidgwick in the Knightsbridge Pro- fessorship at
\nCambridge, a post he held with distinction for thirty-three years. He had the gifts of clear analysis and lucid expression, but the most characteristic feature of his work was that he always thought and wrote as one for whom "moral and spiritual values are not only an essential part of experience but its ultimate meaning", 22:175, 178-79, 181, 183, 185 26:84 1:61, 64-65<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoro<\/b> See<\/i> Ghose, Sarojini<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoroyou (Sarayu)<\/b>, in the Ramayana, <\/i> a river flowing through the kingdom of Koshala and having on its banks Ayodhya, the capital of the kingdom. The modern town of Ayodhya
\nin Fyzabad district of U.P. is on the River Ghaghara, which is locally called the Sarayu. The Sarayu is a tributary of the Ganga. (D. I. H., under Ayodhya and Oudh)  8:3<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoul in Art, <\/b> The a writing of Sri Aurobindo that has been lost; it was commenced on
\n3 February 1912.  XXII: 130<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoul<\/b> of India<\/b><\/i> title of a book (1911) by Bipin
\nChandra Pal. (D.N.B.)  27: 437<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSourashtra<\/b> Saurashtra, formerly, a native state of India, absorbed after 1960 into the state of Gujarat in the Republic of India. (Enc. Br.)  6: 207, 263, 270, 295, 322<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth Africa southernmost country on the African continent, formerly a dominion of the British Commonwealth of Nations. It withdrew from the Commonwealth in 1961. It is now an independent republic comprising four provinces: Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State. (Enc. Br.; Pears) Der: South African  1:259 2:33-34, 301-03 15:311-14, 417, 549 26:54 27:463-64 XVII: 69<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth America<\/b> the southern continent of the Western Hemisphere; it is the fourth largest continent. <\/font><\/td>\n

\n

\n(Enc. Br.)  15:378, 503 26:395<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouthern Cross<\/b> or Crux, a constellation of five bright stars forming a somewhat irregular cross. It is now visible only from south of about 30° N latitude (i.e. the latitude of North Africa and Florida). Thousands of years ago it was visible from much of what is now Europe. (Enc. Br.)
\n 12:475<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouthey, <\/b> Robert (1774-1843), English poet and writer of miscellaneous prose chiefly remembered for his association with Coleridge and Wordsworth, leaders of the early Romantic movement, though his poetry is not specifically Romantic and has little in common with that of these poets. (Enc. Br.) 11: 11<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth Indian Bronzes<\/i> a book by 0. C. Gangoly, published by the Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Calcutta. Sri Aurobindo reviewed it in Arya.<\/i> The bronzes dealt with in the book are images of Hindu divinities that rank among the finest achievements of Indian art. The images were produced in large numbers from the 8th to the 16th century. (Enc. Br.)  17:274, 277<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth Kensington Liberal Club<\/b> the Liberal Club, situated at 128 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London. Benoybhusan and Sri Aurobindo moved to a room in this club after Mrs. Drewett, the mother of their former guardian, abandoned them. (A)
\n 26:2, 6 11:88<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth Pole<\/b> southern end of the earth’s axis. It lies in Antarctica, about three hundred miles south of the Ross Ice Shelf. (Enc. Br.)  23:797<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSouth Sea historical name of the Pacific. (C.O.D.)  v:93<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSoviet Union<\/b> (full name: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), federal state of north- ern Eurasia, comprising fifteen constituent socialist republics. In area it is the world’s largest state, by population the third largest. See also<\/i> Russia. (Enc. Br.) 15:294, 317<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpain<\/b> a country at the southwestern end of the European continent. It occupies eighty- five percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with Portugal. (Enc. Br.) Der: Spaniards; Spanish (in senses other than the language)  1: 48, 411, 467, 526 2: 34, 169-70, 253 3:193 4:212 7:821, 827, 832-33 9: 44, 47, 60 14: 78, 257, 367 15: 46, 264,
\n289, <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\n291, 296, 346, 348-49, 353, 356-57, 381, 390, 421, 445, 478, 505, 508, 512 16: 310 17: 295, 298, 386 22:185 23:926 26:1, 206 1:7 111:27<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpanish<\/b> (language) the official language of Spain, Mexico, and most of the Central and South American states. It is widespread as a former colonial medium and is an important language of trade. It has a total of at least 115 miUion speakers. (Pears)
\n 10: 571 15: 443 26:1 I:7<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSparkes, H.W.S.<\/b> one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the European and Anglo-Indian Defence Association held at Calcutta in April 1908. a 1:828-29<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSparta <\/b>ancient city of the Greeks, capital of ancient Laconia and chief city of the Peloponnesus, on the right bank of the Eurotas.
\n(M.I.) 1:116, 220, 306, 520 5: 405, 420, 422, 434, 449, 464, 470, 473, 480, 491, 509, 514 7: 825 9: 382 15: 89-90, 192, 275, 287, 337-38, 343 17: 103 27: 280-81<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpectator<\/i> a periodical (daily) published in London by the essayists Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison from March 1711 to December 1712, and subsequently revived by Addison in 1714 (for eighty numbers). It adopted a fictional method of presentation through a "Spectator Club" whose imaginary members were the mouthpieces of the authors’ own ideas about society. (Enc. Br.)  I: 13<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpeght<\/b> Thomas Speght, an English scholar, editor of editions of Chaucer’s works published in 1598 and 1602.
\nQ II: 18<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpencer, Herbert<\/b> (1820-1903), English philosopher, rated as one of the leading philosophers of the 19th century. He insisted on a synthesis of knowledge from close scien-
\ntific observation of biological and social phenomena. (Enc. Br.)  2: 42, 120 3: 338<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpender, Stephen<\/b> Stephen (Harold) Spender (1909- ), English poet and critic who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems ex- pressing the politically conscience-stricken leftist "new writing" of that period. In the following decades he became increasingly more autobiographical, and was better known for his perceptive criticism and influential reviews than as a poet. (Enc. Br.)  5:374<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpenser, Edmund<\/b> (1552\/53-99), English poet whose long allegorical poem. The Faerie Queene, <\/i> was thought of in his day as glorify- ing England and the English language. He is known as the poet’s poet because such men<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nas James Thomson, Shelley, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot acknowledged him as their master. He is the inventor of a special stanza-form which he used in The Faerie Queene<\/i> and which has come to be called the Spenserian stanza. (Enc. Br.; Col. Enc.) Der: <\/b> Spenserian 3: 108, 147 5: 343-45 9: 27, 65, 75-77, 80, 82, 92, 111, 113, 361, 402, 421, 521-22 26:323 27:81 11:12, 27<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSphinx I. <\/b>in Greek mythology, a winged monster of Thebes with a woman’s head and lion’s body who proposed a riddle to the Thebans she met and killed all who could not guess it. When Oedipus solved it she threw herself from the rock on which she sat and died. The riddle was: What walks on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening? (Answer: a man) 2. in Egyptian
\nantiquities, a figure with a lion’s body and a man’s or animal’s head. The most widely famed of all sphinxes is the Great Sphinx of Gizeh in Egypt.
\n(Col.Enc.;C.O.D.) 1:420-21 5:11, 43, 101 9: 548 16: 326 19: 686 23:983 28:191, 300, 336 29: 449 XX: 153<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSpinoza, Benedict de (1632-77), Dutch philosopher, an independent Rationalist philosopher and religious thinker who formulated one of the most consummate metaphysical systems in Western philo-
\nsophy. (Enc. Br.)  4: 44 9:381, 547 14: 56, 66 16: 169 24: 1360 25:150<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSquire, J. C.<\/b> Sir John (Callings) Squire (1884-1958), English journalist,
\nplaywright, a leading poet of the Georgian school of pastoral poetry, and an influential critic and editor. (Enc. Br.)  9: 376<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSreepoor<\/b> a famous village in the district of Dacca, formerly in Bengal, now in Bangladesh. It was the "capital" of Chand
\nRoy and Kedar Roy. See<\/i> Chand and<\/i> Kedar. (N.B.A.)  1:21<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrevian or Srevina name given to a frag-
\nmentary tale of pre-historic times written by Sri Aurobindo. The title is unclear in the manuscript, and may be either Srevian or
\nSrevina. D XIII: 49<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobinder Patra<\/b><\/i> "Letters of Sri Aurobindo", the title since 1945
\n(Beng. era 1357) of a collection of Sri Aurobindo’s let- ers in Bengali. The first edition, containing only the letters to Sri Aurobindo’s wife, was published under the title Aurobinder
\nPatra<\/i> by the Sadhana Press of Chander-
\nnagore sometime before 1920.  4: pre.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobindo<\/b> (1872-1950), a modern Rishi
\nand accomplished Yogin who charted hitherto unexplored regions of the higher consciousness and foresaw as the next step of evolution the emergence of
\n"Supermind", a principle of the higher consciousness which alone can bring about a total transformation <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\nand divinization of life on earth. He dedi-
\ncated his life to accelerating the march of evolution by means of his "Integral Yoga" – integral both in its aim and in its method. Sri Aurobindo was,
\nbesides, a revolutionary patriot, a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher \u2014 a versatile genius who, in the words of Remain Rolland, achieved "the completest synthesis that has been realized to this day of the genius of Asia and the genius of Europe." <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAccording to the Mother, Sri Aurobindo is "an Avatar of the future". His birthday (15 August) and the day (24 November) when in 1926 he attained the "Siddhi" which made possible the manifestation of Supermind are observed as two of the four "Darshan" days at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. See also
\n<\/i>K., Kali3, and Zero. Var: Arabindo (Ghose); Aravind A. Ghose; Aravinda; Arvind(o) Ghose; Aurobindo Ackroyd Ghose; Aurobindo (Ghose); A. G.; Auro Der: Aurobindonian;<\/font>
\nAurobindoism  1: pre., 1, 3, 59, 81, 515, 519, 524, 545, 547-49, 554, 634, 652, 666, 715-16, 805-06, 850, 855 2: pre., 25, 45-47, 68, 77, 134, 143, 150-51, 172-73, 192, 197, 199, 314, 316, 328, 346, 353, 366-67, 413, 433 3: pre., 73, 199, 431 4: pre., 178, 182-83, 186-87, 191, 197, 206, 209-10, 215, 241, 243-44, 250, 257, 260-61, 284-85, 288, 329, 375 5: pre., 551 8:392-93 9:140, 363, 377, 400, 434, 463, 531, 557 10: 349 12: pre., 511 16:221, 409 17:262, 364 22:22, 48, 64, 69, 126-27, 149, 203, 210, 280, 292, 381, 387 23: 503, 506, 722, 726, 960-61, 979, 984, 1052, 1067 24:1148-49, 1155, 1182, 1603, 1645, 1690 25: 79, 83, 110, 345, 383-84, 396, 403, 471 26: passim 27: pre., 62, 66, 68, 73, 75, 77, 106, 117, 125, 137, 141, 145, 161, 187, 193-97, 349, 377, 417, 421, 425, 461, 468, 470, 485, 495, 498-99, 509 29: 725, 733, 737, 747, 749-50, 752, 754, 756, 760, 765-66, 768, 770-71, 782, 784-85 1:1-2, 5-6, 9, 18, 20, 24, 68, 70-72, 75 II: 27-28, 33-34, 85-89 III: 41, 65, 68, 80, 84, 86-87 IV: 160, 184, 192, 196-98 V: 37, 76, 98-100 VI: 123, 125 VII: 1, 3, 10-11, 14, 23 VIII: 152 X: 114-15, 144-45, 153 XI: 2, 26, 50, 55, 64-65, 69 XII: 112, 132, 182, 188-89, 191, 195 XIII: 2-3, 13, 17, 20, 38, 57, 60, 62 XIV: 99-100, 102, 105, 120, 123, 127, 138, 161, 163-68 XV:
\n1, 10, 61-64 XVI: 161, 190-91, 193-94 XVII: 57, 64-72 XVIII: 190 XIX: 25, 30, 56 XX: 150, 153, .157 XXI: 11<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/td>\n

\n

\nSri Aurobindo:<\/b> Archives and Research<\/i> an English semi-annual journal started by the Ashram in 1977 to publish Sri Aurobindo’s original writings (discovered or acquired after the publication of the Centenary Library), and the results of research. It comes out in April and December.
\n IV: 196<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobindo Ashram The community that grew up around Sri Aurobindo after his arrival in Pondicherry in 1910 did not take the shape of an "ashram" until 1926. In November of that-year he retired into seclusion, and the "whole material and spiritual charge" of Sri Aurobindo’s disciples devolved on the Mother. Contact with the Master was thereafter possible only through correspondence. He, however, allowed himself to be seen at "Darshan" three times a year. A fourth Darshan (24 April) was started in 1939. When the Ashram began, there were two dozen sadhaks practising yoga under Sri Aurobindo. .The number increased rapidly. After the Second World War whole families, including children, were accepted. The Ashram provided them every- thing they needed for decent and healthy living. The Mother kept full control over the Ashram’s multifarious activities – spiritual, organizational, industrial, educational, cultural, recreational, etc. This gives in brief an idea of the Ashram as it was during Sri Aurobindo’s time. After 1950 its expansion continued, but its general character remained the same. Presently (in 1988) it has about 1100 members living and working in 270 houses spread thoughout the town. There is also a significant number of non-member devotees who live in Pondicherry and take part in the Ashram’s life. Everyone practises Sri Aurobindo’s yoga in his own way, seeking guidance from within and from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. A board of Trustees, formed in 1955 with the Mother as President, assumed full responsibility for the administration of the Ashram after her passing in 1973. a 4:339, 342 22:18, 76, 97, 162, 396 23: 532, 549, 557, 707, 847-50, 852, 854, 856-57, 863, 865-68, 872, 918, 1061 24: 1314, 1362, 1419, 1558, 1611, 1724, 1745 25: 56, 86, 98, 215, 219-21, 227-31, 233-35, 238-39, 241-43, 245, 247-48, 253-55, 259, 269, 276, 280, 284, 286, 295, 299, 301, 310, 317-18, 359-62, 370, 375 26:
\n37, 60, 63, 68, 111, 132-33, 137, 140, 166, 169, 176-77, 179, 188, 196, 374, 377, 380-81, 459, 464, 467, 472-73, 479-82, 485-86, 491,<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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\n500-06, 508, 510 27: 416 <\/b> IV: 192 V: 99 XV: 60 XVI: 191-92
\nXVII: 70 XVIII: 189<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n5ri Aurobindo Prakasham<\/i><\/b> a book in Tamil by Suddhananda Bharathi, published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1947. (A)  27: 503<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n"Sri Aurobindo Prasange"<\/b> a Bengali
\nbook,
\nAravinda Prasanga, <\/i> by Dinendra Kumar Roy, containing an account of the author’s life with Sri Aurobindo in Baroda. It was published by the Prabartak Sangh of
\nChandernagore in 1923. (Note: There is a mix-up as regards the reference in Vol. 26, p. 373. The young man from Chandernagore
\nmentioned by Sri Aurobindo was apparently Arun Chandra Dutt, author of Sri Aravinda
\nMandire, <\/i> and not of Aravinda Prasanga.)
\n<\/i>(A; Purani)  26: 373<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSn Aurobindo<\/i> – The Poet<\/i> a collection of essays by K. D. Sethna, published in 1970. An article of the author under the same title came out in 1929 in the cultural monthly
\nOrient of<\/i> Bombay. This article, with an added passage, is the first in the collection. 26: 266, 271<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSriharsha<\/b> a celebrated king of Kashmir who
\nlived probably in the first half of the 7th century AD. He was a patron of poets and a poet himself.
\n(M.W.) 3: 265 X: 147<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri K; Srikrishna; <\/b> Sri Krishna See<\/i> Krishna<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrikrishna-Narayan<\/b> the penultimate grade of Sri Krishna darshan;<\/i> part of a whole grada-
\ntion of aspects "in the Saguna Brahman":<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nNara,<\/b> Nara-Narayan, Narayan, (Sri)krishna-
\nNarayan and finally Krishna.  XXII: 133<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrinagar city and capital of the former Indian native state of Kashmir. Situated on either side of the Jhelum River, it is one of the most beautiful and famous summer resorts of the East. Srinagar is presently the summer capital ofJammu & Kashmir state.
\n(Col.Enc.;Enc.Br.)  1: 393, 396 IV: 193-95<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrinivasa; Achari<\/b> Sri Aurobindo uses the two elements of the name to refer to one
\nman, Srinivasachari (full name: Mandayam
\nSrinivasachariyar), a nationalist who brought out India, Vijaya, Karmayoga, <\/i> and Bala
\nBharati<\/i> with the help of his elder brother Tirumalachariyar and other nationalists like Subramania Bharati. Srinivasachari
\nhad settled in Pondicherry before Sri Aurobindo’s arrival in 1910. Because he was<\/font><\/p>\n

\nknown to the revolutionary group in Bengal, his help was taken to receive Sri Aurobindo and make arrangements for his stay in Pondicherry. In his Record of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo refers to him as S. or S.A.
\n(Auro-II; Purani) Var: Sri(nivasachari) a 27: 426 XIX: 29 XX: 121 XXI: 6, 9<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\nSrinjaya<\/b> in the Veda, name of a people and their king, son of Devavata and father of KingSahadevaofPanchala. 11:196<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Ramakrishna<\/b> See<\/i> Ramakrishna<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrirangam<\/b> a town near Tiruchirapalli
\n(formerly known as Trichinopoly) in Tamil Nadu state, on an island in the Kaveri River. It is renowned for its association with the great Vaishnava philosopher and teacher Ramanuja and for its main Sriranganatha
\ntemple. It is one of the most famous pil-
\ngrimage centres in South India. (Enc. Br.;<\/font><\/p>\n

Col.Enc.;D.I.H.)  14:213 17:372<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Ranganatha<\/b> name of the deity (Vishnu) installed in the temple at SRIRANGAM. (A)
\n 17:372<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSrivatsa<\/b> a particular mark or curl of hair on the breast of Vishnu or Krishna (and of other divine beings). It is said to be white and is represented in pictures by a symbol resembling a cruciform flower.
\n(M.W.)  XIII: 36<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSruti<\/b> See<\/i> S(h)ruti<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nStalin<\/b> real name: Joseph Vissarionovich
\nDzhugashvili (1879-1953). Russian statesman and leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who for a quarter of a century dictatorially ruled the Soviet Union and transformed it into a major world power. He adopted the name Stalin ("made of steel") after joining the revolutionary movement. (Enc. Br.; Col. Enc.) 0 24: 1294 26: 416-17<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nStandard<\/b><\/i> See (Madras) Standard<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nStandard Bearer<\/b><\/i> English monthly journal started by the Prabartak Sangha at Chander-
\nnagore in 1920 under the inspiration of Sri Aurobindo. It published several articles, poems etc. by Sri Aurobindo. (I & G)
\n 2:431 3:341 16:329 27:482, 485, 497-98<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nStandard Dictionary<\/b><\/i> perhaps Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Dictionary of the English Language<\/i> published in the U.S.A. 26: 313<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nStatesman<\/b><\/i> English daily newspaper of Calcutta, an Anglo-Indian and a liberal imperialist organ, originally started by Robert Knight in 1875 under the title The Statesman.<\/i> In 1877 it was merged with<\/font><\/p>\n

\t\tFriend of India<\/i> under the title The Friend of
\nIndia & The Statesman.<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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