Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

On Wisdom

The Conquests of Sovereign Poetry

Who are the conquerors? Not mere lords of land,

But kingly poets, whose high victories

Are perfect works; men’s hearts at their command

Are wholly; at their will the passions rise.

Glory their body is, which Death’s pale fear

Afflicts not, nor abhorrèd Age comes near.