Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

SABCL 26

Fragment ID: 7902

Q: It is curious how you repeatedly forget that you have so wonderfully Englished Kalidasa’s “Vikramorvasie” or “The Hero and the Nymph”. Once before also I had to remind you of it. Surely it cannot be that you want it to be rejected? By the way, you are supposed also to have translated Kalidasa’s “Meghadut” or “The Cloud-Messenger” – in terza rima.

A: No, I do not reject The Hero and the Nymph. I had merely forgotten all about it.... I did translate the Meghadut, but it was lost by the man with whom I kept it.

5-7-1933