Act Three   The palace in Antioch.   SCENE I     The Audience Chamber in the palace. Nicanor, Phayllus and others seated;  Eunice, Philoctetes.., Thoas  apart near the dais. THOAS Is it patent ? Is he the elder ? do we know ? EUNICE Should he not rule? THOAS If Fate were wise, he should. EUNICE Will Timocles sack great Persepolis ? Sooner, I think, Phraates will couch here, The mighty, steadfast, patient subtle man, And from the loiterer take, the sensualist Antioch of the Seleucidae. THOAS Perhaps. But shall I rise against the country's laws

SCENE III       Before the Syrian hills. Antiochus' tent. Antiochus, Thoas, Leosthenes, Philoctetes. PHILOCTETES This is Phayllus' work, the Syrian mongrel. Who could have thought he'ld raise against us Greece And half this Asia ? ANTIOCHUS He has a brain. THOAS                       We feel it. This fight's our latest and one desperate chance Still smiles upon our fate. ANTIOCHUS Nicanor yields it us, Scattering his armies; for if we can seize, Before he gathers in his distant strengths, This middle pass, Antioch comes with it. So I find it best and think the gods d

SCENE III   The Palace of Cepheus. A room in the women's apartments. Praxilla, to her enters Diomede. DIOMEDE , O Praxilla, Praxilla! PRAXILLA So, thou art back, thou tall inutility? Where wert thou lingering all this hour? I am tired of always whipping thee. I will hire thee out to a timber-merchant to carry logs from dawn to night-fall. Thou shalt learn what labour is. DIOMEDE Praxilla, O Praxilla! I am full to the throat with news. I pray you, rip me open. PRAXILLA Willingly. She advances towards her with an uplifted knife. DIOMEDE (escaping) A plague

SCENE III     Avunthie, a wooded hill-side overlooking the plain. Gopalaca in a chariot with Vuthsa; armed men surround them.   GOPALACA Arrest our wheels. Those are our army's lights That climb to us like fireflies from the plain. VUTHSA (awakened from sleep) Is this Avunthie? GOPALACA We have passed her bounds. VUTHSA So, thou dear traitor, this thou from the first Cam'st planning? GOPALACA This and more for which it was done. VUTHSA Thou bearst me to thy father's house ? GOPALACA Where thou Shalt lie a jewel guarded

Act Three The chamber of Eric. SCENE I     Eric, Harald. ERIC At dawn have all things ready for my march. I come not back without the head of Swegn Or else his living body. Send to me¹ Aslaug the dancing-girl.                                                                        Harald goes out. I have resumed The empire with² 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 various³ harmonies, nor turn The manifold music of humanity Into a single

CONTENTS OF THE CENTENARY LIBRARY Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Bande Mataram, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS—I (1893-1908): New Lamps for Old; Bhawani Mandir; The Doctrine of Passive Resistance; editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches. Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS—II (1909-1910): Uttarpara Speech; The Ideal of the. Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen; other essays, notes and comments

BIBLIOGRAPHY This bibliography lists all of Sri Aurobindo's writings in English which have appeared in book form. It includes not only works that came out prior to the passing of Sri Aurobindo in December 1950 but also those reproduced from manuscripts or journals after that date. Books compiled from already published works have been omitted. Although most of these titles have run into numerous editions, this bibliography gives information about the first edition only; subsequent editions are mentioned only if they included new material or if they were revised by the author. Where necessary, cross-references are given; for example, in title-entry number 1. After the

INDEX TO THE CENTENARY LIBRARY Note to the Index This index comprises references from all original prose writings of Sri Aurobindo, that is, most of the material in the following volumes of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library: 1. Bande Mataram 2. Karmayogin 3. The Harmony of Virtue 9. The Future Poetry 10. The Secret of the Veda 11. Hymns to the Mystic Fire 12. The Upanishads 13. Essays on the Gita 14. The Foundations of Indian Culture 15. Social and Political Thought 16. The Supramental Manifestation 17. The Hour of God 18-19. The Life Divine 20-21. The Synthesis of

Appendix 3 A list of hymns and verses from the Rig-veda translated or cited by number in SRI AUROBINDO BIRTH CENTENARY LIBRARY Volumes 10 and 11, The Secret of the Veda and Hymns to the Mystic Fire, and the supplements to these volumes included in Volume 27. References to complete hymns are printed in bold type. 1.1 11:39-40 1.23.13,14 10:434 1.68.2 11:17fn 1. 1. 1 11:439-58 1.24.6 10:453 1.68.3 11:18fn 1. 1. 1-5 11:459-64 1.24. 7,8 10:455 1.71.2 10:191 1.1.5 10:156