Study materials on Savitri
Books in English on Savitri in the Savitri Bhavan library
The Mother, About Savitri with some paintings,
Huta, 1972.
Sri Aurobindo Archives, On the new edition of Savitri,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1999
Supplement to the revised edition
of Savitri, " 1993
Note on the Text, [from Sri
Aurobindo's Collected Works, vol. 34]
Deshpande, R.Y., The Ancient tale
of Savitri, SAICE, Pondicherry 2nd. ed., 1996
Satyavan must die, Sri Aurobindo
Study Circle, Bokaro, 1996
Vyasa's Savitri, SAICE, Pondicherry, 1996
Despande, R.Y. ed., Perspectives
of Savitri Vol. 1, 2000, Vol. 2, 2002
Hicks, Rand, A Savitri Dictionary,
Dipti Publications, Pondicherry, 1984
Mehta, Rohit, The Dialogue with
Death, Motilal Banarsidass, 1972
Mukherjee, Jugal Kishore, The Ascent
of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, Pondicherry,
2001
Nadkarni, Mangesh V., Savitri: a brief introduction,
Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry
Nandakumar, Prema, A Study of Savitri, [publishing
details not available]
Netter, William, Log of a Journey,
The Author, 1999
Savitri : an Aurovilian commentary,
1993
Savitri seminar outline and workbook, 1992
Pandit, M.P., The Book of Beginnings,
Dipti Publications, Pondicherry, 1983
The Book of the Divine Mother, "
1986
Readings in Savitri, Vols. 1 - 10, " "
Savitri talks in Germany, " 1985
A Summary of Savitri, " 1995
Yoga in Savitri, " 1995
Purani, A.B., Lectures on Savitri,
2nd. ed., Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1989
Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, " 1952
(1996)
Sitaramayya and Swarna Gouri, A
Dual Power of God, MCC Publications, Bangalore, 1999
(available from SABDA)
Sobel, Prem, Savitri Concordance,
All India Books, Pondicherry 1984
Tonioni, Giovanni (Agni), Namaste
Savitri [paintings], Comunita Arora,
Modena, Italy 1995
Translations of Savitri into
French, German, Gujarati, Italian, Hindi, Marathi, Oriya
and Tamil are also available.
Materials available from Savitri Bhavan
The following recordings are available
for audio-cassette, audio CD,
or as MP3 files on CD
Savitri reading. We are preparing
a complete recording of the entire
text of Savitri, read by Shraddhavan. At present about 20
hours of
recitation are available: Book One, Cantos 1, 2, 3, 4 and
5; Book
Three, Cantos 1, 2, 3, 4; and Book Two, Cantos 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6.
Guest speakers at Savitri Bhavan.
Each talk is about one hour.
Speakers include Nirodbaran, Arabinda Basu, the late Udar
Pinto,
Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni, R.Y. Deshpande, Dr. Ananda Reddy,
Sraddhalu Ranade, C.V. Devan Nair, and more...
If you would like to obtain any of these,
please contact us for full
details at the address given on the front & back inside
covers.
“Meditations on Savitri” videos
Savitri Bhavan has now been given responsibility
for Indian
distribution of the video films of the “Meditations on Savitri”
paintings
made by Huta under the Mother’s guidance from 1961 to 1967,
covering the whole of Savitri. These films were prepared,
with the
Mother’s blessings, by Michel of Filmaur. Twelve videos
cover all the
468 paintings of the series, along with the Mother’s readings
of the
selected passages recorded by Huta, and the Mother’s own
organ
music. We are authorised to distribute copies of these videos
in India
only. People in other countries who would like to obtain
copies may
contact:
Filmaur Multimedia
Danziger Str. 1
D 82131 GAUTING
GERMANY
e-mail filmaur@mirapuri-enterprises.com
New study materials on Savitri
The month of August 2000 marked an important
step forward in Savitri studies, with the appearance of
a number of significant study-aids. One of these was the
first volume of Perspectives of Savitri, edited by R.Y.
Deshpande and published by Auro-Bharati Trust, which was
announced in our last issue. This is a book of over five
hundred pages, which brings together a large number of essays
on Savitri published over the last half century in various
books and periodicals, many of which may now be out of print
and difficult to find. For any scholar to get access to
all of these would involve quite a time-consuming labour.
So editor and publisher have done us all a great service
by bringing them together into one accessible volume. The
full list of contents is given below.
Perspectives of Savitri Volume I : CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
[by the editor] Respecting Savitri
PART I
Sri Aurobindo - Three Letters on Savitri
The Mother - On Savitri-A Talk to a Young Disciple
PART II
Nolini Kanta Gupta - Savitri-The Word of Sri Aurobindo
The Opening Scene of Savitri
Nirodbaran - Savitri- A Factual Account of its Composition
A. B. Purani - Savitri-The Epic of the Spirit
Dilip Kumar Roy - The Message of Savitri
M. P. Pandit - The Symbol Dawn
PART III
Amal Kiran - Savitri-Some Glimpses and Reflections
Lights from Passages in Savitri
V. K. Gokak - Diction of Savitri
Ravindra Khanna - A Study of Similes in Savitri
Sisirkumar Ghose - Savitri-A Subjective Poem
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - A Survey of Savitri
Romen - Savitri and Paradise Lost-Method and Style
Rajanikanta Mody - Poetic Imagery in Savitri
PART IV
Ruud Lohman - The Rhythm of Savitri
Rakhaladas Bosu - An Approach to Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
Judith Tyberg (Jyotipriya) - The Drama of Integral Self-Realisation
V. Madhusudan Reddy - The Yoga of Savitri-The Finding of
the Soul
Rohit Mehta - The Eternal Bridegroom
PART V
Rameshwar Gupta - Savitri in World Literature
A. N. Dwivedi - Savitri as an Epic
PART VI
Romesh Chandra Dutt Pativrata Mahatmya
T. V. Kapali Sastry - A Sanskrit Rendering of the Symbol
Dawn
R. Y. Deshpande - The Legend of Savitri with Some Departures
Made by Sri Aurobindo
APPENDICES
Facsimile of a Page from the Savitri MSs
A Short Bibliographical Note
The book is produced to the high standard
we expect of Ashram publications, and available from SABDA
at Rs. 300. A second volume is in preparation, covering
new or more recently published essays by a younger generation
of writers.
Another item released in August will
also be of immense assistance to all Savitri students who
work with a computer. It is a CDRoM prepared by Sraddhalu
Ranade for the Sri Aurobindo Archives, entitled Selected
Works of Sri Aurobindo. This provides the full text
of eleven of Sri Aurobindo's major works, including Savitri,
along with a very helpful driver and search-engine which
enable the user to have several 'books' open at the same
time, and to search for a particular text or keyword. It
is available from SABDA at Rs. 600.
Also brought by the Sri Aurobindo Archives
in August was a booklet entitled On the New Edition of
Savitri : Further Explanations (Part Two). Produced
to throw further light on the process of preparing the 1993
edition of Savitri, it gives a very lucid explanation
of the kind of difficulties the editorial staff encountered,
and their approach to resolving them. It is a helpful complement
to the Archives' earlier booklets on the same topic: the
Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri of 1994,
and On the New Edition of Savitri of 1999. It is
available free on request from the Sri Aurobindo Archives.
Those who are interested to know more about the textual
development of Savitri, we refer to our INVOCATION
issue no. 3 of April 1998, and to the series of articles
by Richard Hartz of the Sri Aurobindo Archives that is currently
appearing in Mother India. We hope that this series,
once complete, will also come out in book form.
While these new materials will most
certainly enrich and assist our study and appreciation of
Savitri, the greatest treasure which became available
last August is About Savitri - Part Two: the text
of the Mother's explanations of Savitri, tape-recorded
and transcribed by Huta and then corrected for publication
by the Mother herself, along with paintings prepared by
Huta under the Mother's guidance. About Savitri - Part
One was brought out at the Mother's wish during Sri
Aurobindo's Centenary Year, 1972, and is now out of print.
There are two more parts to follow. About Savitri - Part
Two has been published by the Sri Aurobindo International
Centre of Education and is available from SABDA for Rs.
225.
Recently too, Sri Aurobindo's Letters
on Savitri, edited by K.D. Sethna, have also been
reissued by the Ashram as a separate volume, costing Rs.
60.
Savitri Bhavan has also received from
the translator, Rajkrushna Mohanty, a copy of his Oriya
version of Nolini Kanta Gupta's Bengali translation of Part
Two of Savitri. The Oriya translation of Part One
came out in November 1999. Both volumes are available from
Matrubhaban, Sri Aurobindo Marg, CUTTACK 753 013.
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