Act IV   Scene 1   The countryside, high ground near the city of Cepheus. A crowd of Syrians, men and women, running in terror, among them Chabrias, Megas, Baltis, Pasithea, Morus, Gardas, Syrax.   BALTIS (stopping and sinking down on her knees) Ah, whither can we run where the offended Poseidon shall not reach us?   CHABRIAS Stop, countrymen; Let's all die here together.   OTHERS Let's stop and die.   MEGAS Run, run! Poseidon's monsters howl behind. PASITHEA O day of horror and of punishment! SYRAX Let us stay here; it is high ground, perhaps The monster will not reach us.

  The Prince of Edur   Persons of the Drama   RANA CURRAN, Prince of Edur, of the Rahtore clan. VISALDEO, a Brahmin, his minister; formerly in the service of the Gehlote Prince of Edur. HARIPAL, a Rajpoot noble, General of Edur; formerly in the service of the Gehlote Prince. BAPPA, son of the late Gehlote Prince of Edur, in refuge among the Bheels. KODAL, a young Bheel, foster-brother and lieutenant of Bappa. TORAMAN, Prince of Cashmere. CANACA, the King's jester of Cashmere. HOOSHKA, Scythian captain. PRATAP, Rao of Ichalgurh, a Chouhan noble. RUTTAN, his brother. A CAPTAIN of Rajpoot lances.   MENADEVI, wife o

  Act V   The Palace in Antioch.   Scene 1   A hall in the Palace. Phayllus, alone.   PHAYLLUS My brain has loosened harder knots than this. Timocles gets by this his Rodogune; That's one thing gained. Tonight or else tomorrow I'll have her in his bed though I have to hale her Stumbling to it through her own husband's blood. For he must die. He is too great a man To be a subject: nor is that his intention Who hides some subtler purpose. Exile would free him For more stupendous mischief. Death! But how? There is this Syrian people, there is Timocles Whose light unstable mind like a pale leaf Trembles, desires, r

  The Prince of Mathura   AJAMEDE, Prince of Mathura, a fugitive in the mountains. INDRADYUMNA, his friend and comrade. ATRY, King of Mathura, by the help of the Scythians. TORAMAN, Prince of Cashmere, son of the Scythian overlord of the North-West. CANACA, a Brahmin, his court jester. HOOSHKA, captain of the Scythian bodyguard. MAYOOR, Atry's general and minister. INDRANY, Queen of Mathura. URMILA, Princess of Mathura, daughter of Atry and Indrany. LILA, daughter of Hooshka.   Act I   Scene 1 Mathura. A room in the Palace. Atry, Indrany.   ATRY However hard it be, however gross

    Rodogune   A Dramatic Romance   Persons of the Drama   NICANOR, of the royal house, general-in-chief of the Syrian armies. THOAS LEOSTHENES PHAYLLUS, an official, afterwards Minister of Timocles. PHILOCTETES, a youg Greek noble of Egypt, friend of Antiochus. MELITUS, a Court official. CALLICRATES, a young Greek noble of Syria. THERAS, a gentleman in waiting. AN EREMITE. CLEOPATRA, an Egyptian princess, sister of the reigning Ptolemy, Queen of Syria; widow successively of King Nicanor and his brother Antiochus. RODOGUNE, a princess of Parthia, prisoner in Antioch. EUNICE, daught

  Act III   Eric's Chamber.   Scene 1 Eric, Harald.   ERIC At dawn have all things ready for my march. Let none be near tonight. Send here to me Aslaug the dancing-girl. Harald goes out. I have resumed The empire and the knowledge of myself. For this strong angel Love, this violent And glorious guest, let it possess my heart Without a rival, not invade the brain, Not with imperious discord cleave my soul Jangling its ordered harmonies, nor turn The manifold music of humanity Into a single and a maddening note. Strength in the spirit, wisdom in the mind, Love in the heart complete th

  Perseus the Deliverer   A Drama The Legend of Perseus   Acrisius, the Argive king, warned by an oracle that his daughter's son would be the agent of his death, hoped to escape his doom by shutting her up in a brazen tower. But Zeus, the King of the Gods, descended into her prison in a shower of gold and Danae bore to him a son named Perseus. Danae and her child were exposed in a boat without sail or oar on the sea, but here too fate and the gods intervened and, guided by a divine protection, the boat bore her safely to the Island of Seriphos. There Danae was received and honoured by the King. When Perseus had grown to manhood the

  Section Three Kalidasa     Vikramorvasie or The Hero and the Nymph       Characters   PURURAVAS, son of Budha and Ila, grandson of the Moon, King of the world, reigning at Pratisthana. MANAVAKA, a Brahmin, the King's jester and companion. LATAVYA, Chamberlain of the King's seraglio. CHITRARATH, King of the Gandharvas, musicians of Heaven. AYUS, son of Pururavas. CHARIOTEER of Pururavas. THE QUEEN AUSHINARIE, wife of Pururavas and daughter of the King of Kashi. URVASIE, an Apsara or Nymph of Heaven, born from the thigh of Narayan. NIPUNIKA, the Queen's handmaid. SATYAVATIE, a hermitess.   A HUNT

APPENDIX   A Later Version of Chapters I and II   CHAPTER I     It was the summer of the Bengali year 1176. The village of Podchinha lay oppressed under a tyrannous heat of the mid summer sun. The village was packed with houses, but people were nowhere to be seen. Rows of shops in the bazaar, rows of booths in the market place, hundreds of clay houses in every quarter with here and there high and low terraced mansions; but today all was silent. In the bazaar the shops were shut; the shopkeepers had fled, one knows not where. It was market-day, but the market was not in swing, — begging-day, but the beggars were not out. The weaver had stopped his

'Translations' by Sri Aurobindo - Page 1 of 30   Appeal   Thy youth is but a noon, of night take heed, — A noon that is a fragment of a day, And the swift eve all sweet things bears away, All sweet things and all bitter, rose and weed. For others' bliss who lives, he lives indeed.   But thou art pitiful and ruth shouldst know. I bid thee trifle not with fatal love, But save our pride and dear one, O my dove, And heaven and earth and the nether world below Shall only with thy praises peopled grow.   Life is a bliss that cannot long abide, But while thou livest, love. For love the sky Was founded, earth upheaved from the deep cry Of wa