Index and Glossary of Sanskrit and other Indian Terms

Contents of the Centenary Library

Volume 1.

Bande Mataram, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS—I (1893- 1908) : New Lamps for Old; Bhawani Mandir; The Doctrine of Passive Resistance; editorials and comments from the Bande Mataram; Speeches.

Volume 2

Karmayogin, EARLY POLITICAL WRITINGS—TI (1909- 1910): Uttarpara Speech; The Ideal of the Karmayogin; An Open Letter to My Countrymen; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin; Speeches.

Volume 3

The Harmony of Virtue, EARLY CULTURAL WRITINGS : The Harmony of Virtue; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; The Sources of Poetry and Other Essays; Valmiki and Vyasa; Kalidasa; The Brain of India; Essays from the Karmayogin; Art and Literature; Passing Thoughts; Conversations of the Dead.

Volume 4

Writings in Bengali: Hymn to Durga; Poems; Stories; The Veda; The Upanishad s; The Puranas; The Gita; Dharma; Nationalism; Editorials from Dharma; Stories of Jail Life; Letters.

Volume 5

Collected Poems, THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS : Short Poems; Sonnets; Longer Poems; On Quantitative Metre; Ilion; Poems in New Metres; Metrical Experiments.

Volume 6

Collected Plays AND SHORT STORIES, Part One : Perseus the Deliverer; Vasavadutta; Rodogune; Eric.

Volume 7

Collected Plays AND SHORT STORIES, Part Two : The Viziers of Bassora; Prince of Edur; The Maid in the Mill; The House of Brut; The Prince of Mathura; The Birth of Sin; Vikramonasie (The Hero and the Nymph). Short Stories : Idylls of the Occult : The Phantom Hour; The Door at Abelard; The Devil's Mastiff; The Golden Bird. Juvenilia.

Volume 8

Translations, FROM SANSKRIT AND OTHER LANGUAGES : From Sanskrit : passages from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, Kalidasa; The Century of Life (The Nitishataka of Bhartrihari); etc. From Bengali : Songs of Bidyapati; Bonde Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil : opening of the The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin : opening of the Odyssey, etc.

Volume 9

The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART.

Volume 10

The Secret of the Veda : The Secret of the Veda; Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris; Other Hymns; Interpretation of the Veda; The Origins of Aryan Speech.

Volume 11

Hymns to the Mystic Fire : Foreword; The Doctrine of tire Mystics; Translations (Hymns to Agni from the Rig-veda translated in their esoteric sense); Supplement.

Volume 12

The Upanishads, TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES : Philosophy of the Upanishads; On Translating the Upanishads; The Upanishads; Early translations of some Vedantic texts; Supplement.

Volume 13

Essays on the Gita : First Series. Second Series, Part One : The Synthesis of Works, Love and Knowledge; Part Two : The Supreme Secret.

Volume 14

The Foundations of Indian Culture AND THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA : Is India Civilised?; A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture; A Defence of Indian Culture (Religion and Spirituality, Indian Art, Indian Literature, Indian Polity); Indian Culture and External Influence; The Renaissance in India.

Volume 15

Social and Political Thought : The Human Cycle; The Ideal of Human Unity; War and Self-Determination.

Volume 16

The Supramental Manifestation AND OTHER WRITINGS : The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth; The Problem of Rebirth; Evolution; The Superman; Ideals and Progress; Heraclitus; Thoughts and Glimpses; Question of the Month from the Arya; The Yoga and Its Objects.

Volume 17

The Hour of God AND OTHER WRITINGS : The Hour of God; Evolution—Psychology—The Supermind; On Yoga; Thoughts and Aphorisms; Essays Divine and Human; Education and Art; Premises of Astrology; Reviews; Dayananda—Bankim—Tilak—Anda—Nammalwar; Historical Impressions; Notes from the Arya.

Volume 18

The Life Divine, BOOK ONE AND BOOK Two, PART ONE. Book One : Omnipresent Reality and the Universe; Book Two : The Knowledge and the Ignorance—The Spiritual Evolution; Part I : The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance.

Volume 19

The Life Divine, BOOK TWO, PART TWO: The Knowledge and the Spiritual Evolution.

Volume 20

The Synthesis of Yoga, PARTS ONE AND TWO: Introduction : The Conditions of the Synthesis; Part I : The Yoga of Divine Works; Part II : The Yoga of Integral Knowledge.

Volume 21

The Synthesis of Yoga, PARTS THREE AND FOUR. Part III : The Yoga of Divine Love; Part IV : The Yoga of Self-Perfection.

Volume 22

Letters on Yoga, PART ONE : The Supramental Evolution; Integral Yoga and Other Paths; Religion, Morality, Idealism and Yoga; Reason, Science and Yoga; Planes and Parts of the Being; The Divine and the Hostile Powers; The Purpose of Avatarhood; Rebirth; Fate and Freewill, Karma and Heredity, etc.

Volume 23

Letters on Yoga, PARTS TWO AND THREE. Part Two : The Object of lntegral Yoga; Synthetic Method and the Integral Yoga; Basic Requisites of the Path; The Foundation of Sadhana; Sadhana Through Work; Sadhana Through Meditation; Sadhana Through Love and Devotion; Human Relationships in Yoga; Sadhana in the Ashram and Outside; Part Three : Experiences and Realisations; Visions and Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness.

Volume 24

Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR : The Triple Transformation—Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the Physical; Transformation of the Subconscient and the Inconscient; Difficulties of the Path; Opposition of the Hostile Forces.

Volume 25

The Mother : WITH LETTERS ON THE MOTHER AND PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (translations from Prières et Meditations de la Mère).

Volume 26

On Himself, COMPILED FROM NOTES AND LETTERS : Part One: Sri Aurobindo on Himself : Life Before Pondicherry; Beginnings of Yoga; His Path and Other Paths; Sadhana for the Earth-Consciousness; The Master and the Guide; The Poet and the Critic; Reminiscences and Observations; Messages; Some Early Letters; Part Two: Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother : Leaders of Evolution; Identity of Their Consciousness; Difficulties of the Path-Finders; Helpers on the Way.

Volume 27

Supplement: Supplementary material arranged by volume.

Volume 28

Savitri—A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL, PART ONE: The Book of Beginnings; The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds; The Book of the Divine Mother.

Volume 29

Savitri—A LEGEND AND A SYMBOL, PARTS TWO AND THREE. Part Two : The Book of Birth and Quest; The Book of Love; The Book of Fate; The Book of Yoga; The Book of Death; Part Three : The Book of Eternal Night; The Book of the Double Twilight; The Book of Everlasting Day; Epilogue : The Return to Earth; Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Savitri.

Volume 30

Index and Glossary: Sri Aurobindo, a Life Sketch; Chronology; Contents of the Centenary Library; Bibliography; List of Essays, Speeches and Shorter Works; Title Index of Poems; Index; Glossary of Sanskrit Terms; etc.