Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 6693

Mātrā-vṛtta [1]

I am quite convinced of the possibilities of the mātrā-vṛtta – which would exist even if Anilbaran is right in insisting that it is the সগোত্র [sagotra] of the akṣara-vṛtta. Two people may be cousins and yet have different characters, possibilities and destinies – and so may two metres.

9 September 1932