SUPPLEMENT FOUR AN INTRODUCTORY WORD ON THE ARTHAŚĀSTRA PROBLEM An indirect argument for the first Maurya may be advanced on the basis of the political treatise Arthaśāstra attributed to his traditional minister who is named Kautilya or Chānakya. A large number of scholars have discussed the question of this document's tallying with or differing from the account of Megasthenes regarding the administration under Sandrocottus. When we have finished our whole reconstruction of India's ancient history from the starting-point of our equation of Sandrocottus with the founder of the Imperial Guptas, we shall take up the question i

PART TWO THE MOMENTOUS EVIDENCE OF MEGASTHENES 1 Megasthenes, the Greek who lived at the court of the Indian king "Sandrocottus" for some years from c. 302 B.C. as the ambassador of Seleucus Nicator, wrote a very popular book entitled Indica. The book itself is lost but it has served as the source for several Classical authors' accounts of the country where the ambassador had sojourned. A question of great moment to the subject of India's antiquity is: "Did Megasthenes receive any information regarding the historical chronology of India from the native annalists of his day?" Such information is likely to throw sharp light on

SUPPLEMENT TWO XANDRAMES OF THE CLASSICAL ACCOUNTS AND HIS INDIAN COUNTERPART A NEW EQUATION PROPOSED When Alexander the Great, in the course of his invasion of India, reached the river Hyphasis (Vipāśa, modern Beās), he heard from the Indian prince Phegelas (Bhagalā) the news, which the renowned Porus (Paurava) confirmed, that on the eastern bank of the Ganges there was waiting for him Xandrames, king of the Gangaridai and the Prasii, with an army of 20,000 horses, 200,000 infantry, 2,000 chariots and 4,000 elephants. The news struck terror in the hearts of the tired Macedonians and they forced their leader to call a retreat.

ANCIENT INDIA IN A NEW LIGHT ANCIENT INDIA IN A NEW LIGHT I.The Challenge of India's Traditional Chronology II.The Momentous Evidence of Megasthenes III.A Reconstruction of Ancient Indian History: Aśoka - and Before and After K. D. SETHNA ADITYA PRAKASHAN NEW DELHI First Published: 1989 © K. D. Sethna (1904-) Rs. 500.00 ISBN: 81-85179-12-3 Published by Rakesh Goel for Aditya Prakashan, 4829/1, Prahlad Lane, 24 Ansari Road, New Delhi Printed at Sri Aurobindo A

BIBLIOGRAPHY The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), 1947, 2nd rev. ed. 1974, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry The Thinking Corner - Causeries on Life and Literature, Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), 1996, The Integral Life Foundation, Waterford CT, 06385, U.S.A. Sri Aurobindo - Letters on Savitri, Edited by K.D. Sethna, 1951, 2000, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo-The Poet, K.D. Sethna, 1970,1999, Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry Inspiration and Effort: studies in literary attitude and expression, Amal Kiran (K.D. Sethna), 1995, The Integral Life Foundation, Waterford CT, 06385,

SRI AUROBINDO - A NEW AGE OF MYSTICAL POETRY1 Missioned voices drive to me from God's doorway Words that live not save upon Nature's summits, Ecstasy's chariots.2 These three lines make a most magnificent picture, Vedic and Upanishadic in its symbolism, and the sound-strokes of the words leave reverberations that are mantric: the impulsion of the supreme Spirit is poetised in language and rhythm which are themselves received from the immense Overworld known to the ancient Rishis. They are the aptest and most inwardly representative summing-up possible of the afflatus that creates Sri Aurobindo's Savitri and of the impression le

OPENING SPEECH FOR THE SRI AUROBINDO RESEARCH ACADEMY 24 APRIL 1978 In everything connected with Sri Aurobindo, as this Academy most evidently is, we have to think of the new Truth of the spiritual consciousness, which he has brought to the world - the all-creative and all-transforming Supermind. The Supermind, by the very nature of its comprehensiveness, takes the whole of life into its scope. The new Truth which it represents must, therefore, mean a host of fresh insights waiting for us in all the fields of human activity -philosophy, sociology, history, science, art and even business. Everywhere by its influence

POETRY OF THE THOUGHT-MIND AND "OVERHEAD POETRY" MILTON'S PARADISE LOST AND SRI AUROBINDO'S SAVITRI Milton knew himself to be for "an audience fit, though few." It is impossible for many to address him in their minds as he makes Eve address Adam: O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose, My glory, my perfection!1 But in a poetic sense Milton can be likened to Adam and regarded as our glory and perfection if we interpret from the standpoint of poetic psychology the phrase: O sole in whom my thoughts find all repose. For, Milton is the first English poet to fashion the language of p

INDEX A absolute Self 99 adesh 212 A.E., AE 33,197,367 Aeschylus 205 Agni 298 ahan 303 Akash 174 Amal Kiran first article about Savitri 1 first contact with Savitri 50,316 lines of poetry 262 Sri Aurobindo - the Poet 316 The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo 1,55,321 Ananda 176,209,247 Anne, Countess of Winchelsea 119 Aquinas, Thomas 207 Arberry,A.G. 70 Ariosto 187 Aristotle 207 Arnold/Edwin 217 aśva 302 Aurobindonian Age 39,48 art 216 blank verse 219 consciousness 208 effect 68 God-glimpse 209 integration of secular and esoteric 353

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON SAVITRI (WITH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO SRINVANTU, AUGUST 1986) (A few of us have been trying to read and study Savitri in a group. We requested Amal Kiran (K. D. Sethna) to kindly give us a guide-line, so that our understanding as well as enjoyment of Savitri might be enhanced and enriched. We put some specific questions which would show him the trend of our mind. Given below are the first two of them along with his answers. - Ed. Srinvantu) Q. One may approach Savitri (1) with a devotee's attitude as the spiritual autobiography of the Master, (2) as a book or storehouse of spiritual wisdom comparable to the V