Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20323
As if the original Ukase still held back.
I have accented on the first syllable as I have done often with words like “occult”, “divine”. It is a Russian word and foreign words in English tend often to get their original accent shifted as far backward as possible. I have heard many do that with “ukase”.1
1937
1 This note of Sri Aurobindo’s has been entered here for its intrinsic interest. The line in question runs at present (p. 75):
He read the original ukase kept back