SITE OF SRI AUROBINDO & THE MOTHER
      
Home Page | Workings | Works of Sri Aurobindo | Translations

Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Miscellaneous Verses

The Splendid Harlot

Victory’s a harlot full of glorious lust

Who seeks the hero’s breast with wounds deep-scored,

Hate’s passionate dints like love’s! So when the sword

Has ploughed its field, leap there she feels she must.