Scansion of Savitri: Book One - The Book of Beginnings

by RY Deshpande

Sri Aurobindo considered Savitri as his "main work" and out of his precious time allotted two and a half hours every day for its composition. This was in the late 1940s when the tempo of the work had speeded up considerably. In fact he was otherwise engaged with it almost for fifty years though with some long gaps in between. Today we have a poem written in pentametric blank verse form running roughly into twenty-four thousand lines. Divided in twelve...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1079029141
• ISBN13: 9781079029147
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"