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Anantanarayanan, M.
RAMACHANDRA, R. "The Silver Pilgrimage: A Belated Response" The Literary Criterion
14.1 (1980):73-8.
Arora, V.N.
TRIKHA, M. "V.N. Arora's Sons and Fathers: A Brief Study" Journal of Indian Writing in
English 13.1 (1985):59-63.
Aurobindo, Sri
BHATNAGAR, K.C. "Aurobindo's Savitri as 'The Future of Poetry'" PURBA 3.2
(1972):87-96.
BHATTA, S. KRISHNA. "Sri Aurobindo's Vasavadutta." In Aspects of Indian Writing in
English, edited by M. K. Naik, 248-61. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1979.
Aurobindo often deviates from the original story in Kathasaritsagara which he
mentions as his source. He highlights the romantic aspect, using the hero Vuthsa to symbolize
the patriotic urges of a subjugated nation. Aurobindo casts a purely Indian legend into the
Elizabethan five-act mould. The play would have been more effective and stageworthy if he
had followed the rich dramatic tradition of India.
CHATTERJEE, KALIKA RANJAN. "The Philosophical Themes in Sri Aurobindo's Perseus
the Deliverer." in Indian Writing in English, edited by Krishna Nandan Sinha, 147-55. New
Delhi: Heritage Publishers, 1979.
Aurobindo wrote five verse plays during the Baroda period, when philosophical ideas
were crystallising in his mind. The legend of Perseus takes on a universal character, and is
used to express Aurobindo's view of life. By presenting the old god Poseidon as a foil to
Athene, Aurobindo shows the evolution of the idea of God from a vindictive deity to a humane
one. From the philosophic point of view, Perseus is the representative of the high god on
earth; his mission is to save mankind. Perseus and Andromeda stand for the creative principle
of life; they are associated with light, while animal imagery is used for Poseidon. The worship
of Poseidon symbolizes the Asuric (dark and violent) life forces, which are mastered and
transformed by the redeeming power of love, represented by Perseus and Andromeda.
DESHPANDE, P.S. "Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a Key to Integral Perfection" in AMUR, G.S.,
PRASAD, V.R.N., NEMADE, B.V. & NIHALANI, N.H., eds. Indian Readings in
Commonwealth Literature New York: Apt; 1985: New Delhi: Sterling, 1985: 59-70.
DESHPANDE, R.Y. "'Sathyavan Must Die': A Discourse apropos of a Phrase in Sri
Aurobindo's Savithri" Mother India, no.? (1990): 413-415, 624-627, 682-686, 768-771,
813-816,
DESHPANDE, R.Y. "Savitri's House of Meditation" Mother India 42.1 (1989): 61-7; 41.2
(1989): 135-41.
DESHPANDE, R.Y. "The Message of Vyasa's Savitri" Mother India 42.3 (1989): 205-9;
42.4 (1989): 273-80.