SRI AUROBINDO
Early Cultural Writings
(1890 — 1910)
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Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Vol. 3 Sri Aurobindo. The Harmony of Virtue: Early Cultural Writings // Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 3.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972.- 489 p. |
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The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: set in 37 volumes. Vol. 1 Sri Aurobindo. Early Cultural Writings // The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 1.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2003.- 784 p.- ISBN 81-7058-496-5 |
The Complete
Works of Sri Aurobindo |
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— ALL BOOK IN A SINGLE FILE |
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—SET OF HTML FILES |
Notes |
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Part One. The Harmony of Virtue |
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18912 |
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c. 18921 |
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18921 |
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18921 |
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Part Two. On Literature |
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Bankim Chandra Chatterji |
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16-07-18941 |
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23-07-18941 |
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30-07-18941 |
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06-08-18941 |
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13-08-18941 |
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20-08-18941 |
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27-08-18941 |
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On Poetry and Literature |
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c. 1898-19012 |
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c. 1898-19013 |
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c. 1898-19012 |
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c. 1898-19012 |
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Marginalia on Madhusudan Dutt’s Virangana Kavya |
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c. 1894-19004 |
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c. 1894-19004 |
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c. 1906-19083 |
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The Poetry of Kalidasa |
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c. 1898-19031 |
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c. 1900-19031 |
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c. 1898-19021 |
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c. 1900-19031 |
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c. 1900-19031 |
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Hindu Drama |
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c. 1901-19035 |
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c. 1901-19031 |
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Vikramorvasie: The Play |
c. 1900-19031 |
Vikramorvasie: The Characters |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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[8. The legend is characteristic of the Hindu mythopoeic...] |
c. 1898-18996 |
c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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[11. In dramatic tone and build therefore this is an admirable creation...] |
c. 1898-18991 |
[12. Nothing more certainly distinguishes the dramatic artist...] |
c. 1898-18991 |
c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-1901N |
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On Translating Kalidasa |
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c. 19037 |
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c. 19037 |
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c. 19037 |
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c. 19037 |
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c. 19031 |
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c. 19031 |
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c. 19031 |
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Appendix: Alternative and Unused Passages and Fragments |
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1. An early fragment |
c. 19005 |
2. Alternative opening to “The Historical Method” |
c. 1900-1903N |
3. [Passages from the manuscript of “The Seasons — I: Its Authenticity” that Sri Aurobindo did not include in the published version.] |
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c. 1900-1903N |
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c. 1900-1903N |
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c. 1900-1903N |
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c. 1900-1903N |
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c. 1900-19036 |
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4. [Alternative and unused passages from the manuscript of “Vikramorvasie: The Characters”] |
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c. 1898-18991 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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c. 1898-18996 |
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Notes on the Mahabharata |
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c. 09.1901-19021 |
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2. [It was hinted in a recent article of the Indian Review...] |
c. 09.1901-19021 |
c. 19021 |
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4. Vyasa; some Characteristics |
c. 19021 |
c. 09.1901-19021 |
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6. Notes on the Mahabharata [Detailed] |
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c. 19021 |
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c. 1902N |
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after 1902N |
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Part Three. On Education |
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22-07-18991 |
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c. 1902N |
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c. 19021 |
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The Brain of India |
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09-10-19091 |
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[2. A new centre of thought implies a new centre of education...] |
16-10-19091 |
06-11-19091 |
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13-11-19091 |
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A System of National Education |
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12-02-19108 |
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19-02-19108 |
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III. The Moral Nature |
26-02-19108 |
05-03-19108 |
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12-03-19108 |
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19-03-19108 |
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26-03-19108 |
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02-04-19108 |
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08-04-19187 |
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c. 1916-19184 |
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A Preface on National Education |
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[1. The necessity and unmixed good of universal education...] |
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19218 |
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Part Four. On Art |
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The National Value of Art |
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20-11-19099 |
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27-11-19099 |
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04-12-19099 |
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11-12-19099 |
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[5. The value of art in the training of intellectual faculty...] |
18-12-19099 |
25-12-19099 |
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17-07-19091 |
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02-10-19091 |
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16-10-19091 |
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after 08.19104 |
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Part Five. Conversations of the Dead |
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12-02-19101 |
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19-02-19101 |
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c. 19101 |
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c. 19101 |
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c. 19101 |
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Part Six. The Chandernagore Manuscript |
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Passing Thoughts [1] |
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19103 |
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19103 |
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19103 |
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19103 |
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Passing Thoughts [2] |
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19101 |
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19101 |
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19101 |
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19101 |
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19101 |
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19108 |
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19108 |
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19101 |
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19101 |
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Things Seen in Symbols [1] |
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19108 |
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19101 |
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Part Seven. Epistles / Letters From Abroad |
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Epistles from Abroad |
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[1. Dearly beloved, You, my alter ego, my second existence...] |
19101 |
[2. Friend and brother, I am as yet among the unregenerate...] |
19101 |
[3. Dear Biren, Your list of questions is rather a long one...] |
19101 |
Letters from Abroad |
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[4. Dear Biren, The idea that the Europeans have organised...] |
1910-191110 |
[5.1 Dear Biren, I suspect that it is a malady of your intellect...] |
1910-191110 |
[5.2 No, it is not in the stress of an intolerant patriotism...] |
1910-191110 |
1910-191110 |
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[6.1 Dear Biren, There are moments in the career of peoples...] |
1910-191110 |
1910-191110 |
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Part Eight. Reviews |
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14-08-19091 |
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05-19158 |
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10-19158 |
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07-19178 |
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04-19208 |
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11-19178 |
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03-19168 |
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11-19188 |
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09-19208 |
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Part Nine. Bankim — Tilak — Dayananda |
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16-04-19078 |
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19188 |
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05-08-19208 |
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19158 |
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19168 |
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04-12-19098 |
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Appendix One. Baroda Speeches and Reports |
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Speeches Written for the Maharaja of Baroda |
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c. 19017 |
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15-12-190211 |
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190212 |
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Opinions Written as Acting Principal |
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03-05-1905N |
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09-08-1905N |
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13-09-1905N |
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15-09-1905N |
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16-09-1905N |
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Appendix Two. Premises of Astrology |
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c. 19108 |
During the history of publication of Sri Aurobindo’s works, their texts were modified here and there — sometimes by elementary misprints, but more often because of the hard work of editors, who:
(1) discovered and encrypted unprinted manuscripts or their parts (this was a best part of what they could do);
(2) corrected previous misprints or unsound modifications (a sound part of their work);
(3) corrected Sri Aurobondo’s factual or grammatical inexactnesses or mistakes or grammatical characteristics (i.e. s / z) (what would be appropriate only in footnotes, but not in the text itself);
(4) made innumerable “improvements” of the texts, when original words were replaced by more “appropriate” ones; articles changed most freely; the tenses of verbs and the singular and plural of nouns were often modified (and all these “improvements” deform in some degree — even if in hardly notable — the meaning, intonation, nuance, manner, style and therefore are inadmissible; and, after all, we need Sri Aurobindo’s words, not editor’s);
(5) combined (using sometimes invented insertions or modifying texts) different texts (or some parts of them) as if it were one solid work (this also deforms meaning and context of originals and often brings strange feeling when one style or tone is strangely jumped to another. It would be too licentious even in someone’s work based on Sri Aurobindo’s writings, but it is absolutely inadmissible in a book pretended to be a collection of HIS works);
(6) cut off parts of the texts (especially of the letters) under pretext that they are not of “general interest” — although, rather, to fit the remains to a subject of a book or its section (and this is the most disgusting spoilage and uncorrectable and grievous loss).
So now we have Sri Aurobondo’s works with varied places — when one of variants, perhaps, is authentic, while other — not quite. May be some day we will see realy Complite Works of Sri Aurobindo without prenominate defects. But now, what can we do, when we have not originals at hand to check alternatives against them?
(1) Sometimes we can correct situation No 5 — i.e. separate different texts, joined together.
(2) Sometimes we can correct situation No 6 — whenever we find full version, we can provide fragment of the text by footnote with full version or even replace this fragment by full version.
(3) We can evince most of the cases of situations Nos 3 and 4. For this purpose we compared the texts of different editions and provide differing places with appropriate footnotes in our files. (By the way, this symbol by symbol comparison allowed us also to avoid misprints of scanning and OCR procedures.) And when this comparison does not make us sure which variant is authentic, we, at least, become aware of the fact and details of such variations.
To distinguish numerous footnotes of this kind we used special style: (1) colour of numbers of footnotes are dark red; (2) when cursor is placed over differing piece, its background is changed to light red (also it allows readers to compare easily differing place in a text with a pop-up hint that contains alternative variant).
During this comparison, to avoid overloading of the texts by footnotes, we ignored differences of register, punctuation, paragraphs, variants of languages or transliterations of the same word (for example, in one edition the word is printed in English transliteration, in another – in Devanagari), sometimes — variants of proper names (especially solid or separate spelling). Also we did not made any footnotes in cases of distinct misprints — just corrected them.
In the footnotes of every file we added a link to another edition of current work (if it exists).
In the Contents above, opposite every work (to the right) we indicated compared edition:
1 Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 3.- The Harmony of Virtue: Early Cultural Writings — 1890-1910.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 489 p.
2 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.— Volume 1, No2 (1977, December)
3 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.— Volume 1, No1 (1977, April)
4 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 7, No1 (1983, April).- 97 p.
5 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 2, No1 (1978, April).- 108 p.
6 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 5, No2 (1981, December).- 112-212 p.
7 Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 27.- Supplement.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 511 p.
8 Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 17.- The Hour of God and other writings.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 406 p.
9 Compared with text of earlier publication (we have not exact bibliography information on this publication — text was found in Internet).
10 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 3, No2 (1979, December).- 123-233 p.
11 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 14, No1 (1990, April).- 115 p.
12 Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 8, No1 (1984, April).- 124 p.
N The work was not compared with other editions.