![]() ![]() What is the reason for choosing Savitri? In response, Sri Aurobindo said “Savitri is the only heroine who never cried in her life – all others have cried when tragedy fell upon them”. A disciple once asked him “ why have you chosen Savitri as the heroine of your epic?” he continued “ why not Radha, why not Sita, why not Dranpadi, why not Maitreyi, why not Ahalya? They were all equally great mythic heroines of ancient time. Sri Aurobindo spent almost forty to fifty long years to write and complete Savitri. Sri Aurobindo’s epic retains their cardinal features but packs them with enormous fresh significance. The bare bones of the original are Aswapati’s eighteen – year long austerities followed by the birth of Savitri, the challenge of fate when Savitri marries Satyavan, Savitri’s three nights fasting and austerities, and Savitri triumphing over Yama and fate and reclaiming ‘lost’ Satyavan and redeeming her parents and parents – in law’s family fortune. On the other hand, it will be seen mighty though the overreaching Banyan that is the epic, its seed – no bigger than an atom – is still in the old bardic poem. There are, however, elaborations, psychological exploration, which are grafted on the original so as to give the epic impressive new dimensions quite beyond the new scope of the Upakhyana. The main lines of the human story remain unaltered, in spite of the successive revisions or recasts of the epic in Sri Aurobindo’s hand. It will be seen that although the modern epic in English is about thirty – five times as long as the ancient Upakhyana in Sanskrit, although they are separated by two or three millennia of historic time, yet they are grounded on more or less that same base and seem to rise and stand in the same solitary grandeur against the contemporary literary Landscape. He has not add any extra character or events into it, the story remains exactly the same – the only thing he has done is, he has given a significance to the story. The tale is recited in the Mahabharata in about seven hundred Lines in the original Sanskrit, Sir Aurobindo has expanded and transformed into a modern English epic in twelve books, of forty – nine cantos, spread over nearly twenty- four thousand lines. Sri Aurobindo has not created this he has taken it from Mahabharata and developed it in to a symbol. ![]() The story of Savitri and Satyavan is unique amorg Legends and history and it is well known in India. His other major contributions are,The Life Divine, Essays on the Gita, Foundations of Indian culture, The Human Cycle, Synthesis on yoga, Bases of yoga, The Upanishads, Secrets of the Veda, Letters on yoga and more. The poet is Sri Aurobirdo, the great son and seer of India. Put your rating for this post for encouraging the author ![]()
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