Vikramorvasie; or, The Hero and the Nymph

Kalidasa

Translated by Sri Aurobindo

8 chapters · about 71 min

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The opening

Act I

INVOCATION

H e in Vedanta by the Wise pronounced Sole Being, who the upper and under world Pervading overpasses, whom alone The name of God describes, here applicable And pregnant — crippled else of force, to others Perverted — and the Yogins who aspire To rise above the human death, break in Breath, soul and senses passionately seeking The Immutable, and in their own hearts find — He, easily by work and faith and love Attainable, ordain your heavenly weal.

After the invocation the Actor-Manager speaks.

Manager No need of many words.

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About this edition

The words
Sri Aurobindo's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 22 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 2 places
  • Notes about a stage production
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
  • A printed brace read by the OCR as a letter (“L”) at a line start (cut)
  • A printed brace read by the OCR as a letter (“1”) at a line start (cut)
  • The lower end of a printed brace (grouping the four nymphs) read by the OCR as “J”
  • Other material that isn't the author's
  • Scan specks read as “«” and “e”, each alone on its own line under a speaker's name (2 blocks)
  • The dash joining a scene's heading to its setting (the setting follows as its own line)
  • The closing line “THE END”
  • The printer's imprint (“GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS. HYDERABAD”)