Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Publisher’s Note

Translations comprises all of Sri Aurobindo’s translations from Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Greek and Latin into English, with the exception of his translations of Vedic and Upanishadic literature. The Vedic and Upanishadic translations appear in volumes 14 – 18 of The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. His translations of some of the Mother’s French Prières et méditations appear in volume 31, The Mother with Letters on the Mother. His translations from Sanskrit into Bengali appear in volume 9, Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit.

The contents of the present volume are divided by original language into five parts. The dates of the translations are given in the Note on the Texts. They span more than fifty years, from 1893 to the mid-1940s. Less than half the pieces were published during Sri Aurobindo’s lifetime; the rest are reproduced from his manuscripts.