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
Phone +89 850 85 55
Fax +89 850 91 78
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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