Sri Aurobindo

Early Cultural Writings

(1890 — 1910)

Part Two. On Literature
The Poetry of Kalidasa

Appendix

Vikramorvasie: The Characters [5]

Urvasie seems at first sight to be deficient in feeling; she sends Ayus away from her at his birth and though there is an indication that she must have visited him occasionally, yet long years of separation are also implied which she appears to have borne with some equanimity. In reality she has no choice. By keeping him she would lose both husband and child, by

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