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\nBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NO TE <\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobindo, on his return to India, started steeping himself in Indian
\nCulture and began learning the Indian languages \u2014 Sanskrit, Bengali, Gujarati,
\nMarathi, etc. At the same time he commenced translating from Sanskrit and
\nBengali. We find in his manuscripts a few lists enumerating the work he had
\ndone, judging from which many translations seem to have been lost. The
\ntranslation of Kalidasa’s Meghaduta<\/i> in terza rima, is, we know for
\ncertain, irretrievable. <\/p>\n

\nMost of the translations from the Mahabharata<\/i>, the Ramayana<\/i>, the
\nGita<\/i>, Kalidasa, Bhartrihari and the mediaeval poets Bidyapati, Chandidas,
\nHorn Thakur, etc. were done during Sri Aurobindo’s Baroda period, 1893-1905. But
\nKalidasa’s Kumarasambhava<\/i> bears the date January 15, 1918. The Book of
\nthe Assembly Hall <\/i>from the Mahabharata <\/i>bears the earliest known date,
\nthe 18th of March, 1893, indicating that it was started exactly a month after he
\nhad assumed office in Baroda State. <\/p>\n

\nVidula <\/i>which appeared in Bande Mataram <\/i>in 1907 was translated
\nabout the same time. <\/p>\n

\nKalidasa’s Vikramorvasi <\/i>and Bhartrihari’s Century of Life <\/i>were
\npublished in book-form in 1911 and 1923 and were included in Collected Poems
\nand Plays <\/i>in 1942. Vikramorvasi <\/i>has been published in Volume 7 of the
\nCentenary Series (Collected Plays<\/i>). <\/p>\n

\nThe first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Ananda Math <\/i>
\nwere translated and serialised in the Karmayogin <\/i>in 1909. The national
\nsong, Bande Mataram<\/i>, appears in this novel. <\/p>\n

\nSongs of the Sea <\/i>was translated at the request of the author, C. R. Das,
\nand published in 1923 with his own prose translations. In 1942 it was included
\nin Collected Poems and Plays<\/i>. <\/p>\n

\nThe works of Tamil poets were translated with the help of Subramaniam Bharati
\nand published in the Arya <\/i>in 1914-1915. <\/p>\n

\nTranslations from the Greek belong to Sri Aurobindo’s early period, while the
\npoem from Catullus was done in Pondicherry. <\/p>\n

\nDuring the ‘thirties and ‘forties Sri Aurobindo translated from Bengali a few
\npoems of his disciples. <\/p>\n

\nD. L. Roy’s song Mother India <\/i>was Englished in 1941. <\/p>\n

\nThe translations brought together in this volume are printed exactly as found in
\nthe manuscripts. Proper names are spelt as in the original copy. <\/p>\n

\nMost of the translations here are of literary pieces. The translations of the
\nUpanishads and Vedas are published in Volumes 10,-11, 12 of the present series.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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