Milan a leading financial, industrial, and commercial city of Italy and capital of the north Italian region of Lombardy (Lom- bardia). (Enc. Br.) o i: 501   Milford an English critic about whom Dilip Kumar Roy wrote to Sri Aurobindo in connection with Sri Aurobindo's quantitative hexameters, a S: 551-52 9: 398-400 11:29-34   Mill, John Stuart (1806-73), English philosopher, political economist, and exponent of Utilitarianism (inherited from Jeremy Bentham), whose works contain the major strands of 19th-century philosophy, logic, and economic thought. (Enc. Br.) D 1: 427, 704 III: 10   Miltiades probably Miltiades the Younger (c. 554-489 BC), general who

hifted to Calcutta in 1871 and continued to be bilingual till March 1878. After the passing of the Vernacular Press Act, it was converted overnight (21 March 1878) into an English weekly. It became a daily from February 1891, and shortly thereafter Motilal Ghose became one of the editors. The paper played an important role in the freedom struggle as a nationalist organ. (D.N.B.-II, pp. 51, 61) 1:189, 252, 281-82, 423-24, 429-30, 733 2:137, 230, 295-97, 314-15, 319, 329, 353, 356-57 4:226, 243 26:399 27:463, 492   Amritsar a city, administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the Punjab, north- western India; famous as the holy city of

INTRODUCTION   Scope of the Work         In this "Glossary and Index" are listed proper names - personal, geographical, historical, fictional, mythological, etc. - used by Sri Aurobindo in his writings. The volumes referred to are the twenty-nine text volumes of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library and Volumes 1 to 11 <1977 to 1987) of the semiannual journal Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research. (For the purpose of the Glossary the scope is extended to include the unpublished portion of Sri Aurobindo's "Record of Yoga", which will continue to be published in future issues of the journal.) To collect the names all of the texts in each of these volumes have been

Puloma in Hindu mythology, name of the titaness who was the wife of Bhrigu. She gave birth to CHYAVAN, who even from the womb inherited his father's greatness and ascetic energy. (M.N.;A)  5:239, 253 27:152, 158   Puloman in Hindu mythology, name of an Asura who was father of Sachi, the wife of Indra. (Dow.)  27:158   Punjab Pancanada, a province of India which under British rule extended from N.W.F.P. (North West Frontier Province) to Delhi. Lahore was its capital. With the creation of Pakistan in August 1947, Punjab was partitioned approximately along a line that divides the main concentrations of the Moslem and Hindu populations. The Hindu section now constitute

England largest and most populous unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Der: English(men);   Englishwomen; Englished; Anglicised; Anglicisation 1:1, 7-8, 12-14, 16, 18, 21-32, 34-39, 41-43, 48, 53-56, 58, 63, 91-93, 99-100, 104-06, 108, 118, 132-33, 138, 142-43, 145-46, 149, 158-59, 176, 186, 190, 198, 201-02, 208-09, 220-21, 226, 230, 242, 245, 260-61, 264, 267, 269, 278-79, 282, 286, 288, 294-95, 304-05, 313, 332-33, 341-43, 350-51, 355, 358, 365, 367-68, 380, 387-88, 390, 395, 403, 409, 413-14, 417-19, 421-22, 426-27, 435, 440, 443-44, 447-48, 450, 455, 459-60, 462-65, 467-68, 470-73, 480, 482, 487, 492, 496, 499-501, 503-06, 512, 525, 534, 5

532 13:82, 84-85, 105, 110, 138, 328.330, 359, 448, 454-56, 458 14:288, 292 16:133, 276, 278 19:1022 21:713, 741 22:385, 387, 495 11:38.76-77 111:55 IV: 138, 150 VI: 170, 176, 183-87, 190, 192 XV: 5   Devachan in theosophy, "the dwelling of the gods"; a state intermediate between two earth-lives, into which the Ego enters after the separation from Kamarupa (the subjective form created through mental and physical desires and thoughts in connection with matter by all sentient beings, a form which survives the death of their bodies), and after the disintegration of the lower principles on earth. (T.G.) XIIL33   Devadatta in the Mahabharata, name of Arjun's conch-shell.

Ibbetson, Sir Denzil Sir Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson (1847-1908), English official in the I.C.S. from 1870. During the period 1870-83 he served in Punjab in many positions. Later he filled the posts of Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Revenue and Agriculture (1896-98), Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces (1898-1902), Member of the Governor-General's Council (1902-05), and Lt. Governor of Punjab (1905-08). (S.F.F.; Wolpert, p. 247; Gilbert, p. 24fn.)  i: 303,344,354,373, 391,400 27:51-52   Iberia the Iberian Peninsula consisting of the countries of Spain and Portugal. The region is named after the ancient people called Iberians who are believed to h

Glossary and Index of Proper Names to Sri  Aurobindo's Works   PUBLISHER'S NOTE   The works of Sri Aurobindo abound in proper names. Their number and variety make it difficult for his readers to obtain a full intellectual understanding of his writings. A person familiar with Puranic mythology may know little about the geography of ancient Greece. An admirer of Shakespeare may never have heard of Yajnavalkya. A student who had the time and the inclination to look up every unfamiliar name would need a full shelf of reference books, some of them difficult to obtain, and even then some terms would escape him. The present volume is an attempt to meet

state, and the name is considered synonymous with Utopia. According to certain esoteric traditions, the occult sciences achieved a high level of development in Atlantis. (Col. Enc.) 6:9 17:237 22:1-2   Atlas in Greek mythology, a Titan, son of lapetus and Clymene. After the downfall of the Titans he was condemned to stand at the western end of the earth, bearing the sky on his head and hands. Perseus is said to have changed him into Mt. Atlas because of his inhospitality. (Col. Enc.; M.I.) 5:412, 481, 486 6:174 8:410   Atreid, The See Atrides a 5:475, 480, 482, 484 8:410   Atreus in Greek legend, king of Mycenae. He was son of Pelops and suffered from the curs

Patiala a protected princely state till its merger with the Indian Federal Republic in 1948. It first formed part of PEPSU (Patiala and East Punjab States' Union), but in 1956 it was merged in the state of Punjab. It is about 125 miles to the northwest of Delhi. In the days of British domination the Patiala chief Maharaja Bhupendra Singh (1891-1938) greatly developed the state. (D.I.H.)  2:249-50, 353-56   Patmore, Coventry Coventry (Kersey Dighton) Patmore (1823-96), English poet and essayist whose allusive poetry reflects a deep knowledge and understanding of 17th- century metaphysical poetry, unusual in one of his day. (Enc. Br.)  26:258 29:797   Patmos smallest (22