Sri Aurobindo

Autobiographical Notes

and Other Writings of Historical Interest

Part One. Autobiographical Notes

2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography

Life in Baroda, 1893–1906

Poetry Writing at Baroda [2]

Vidula . . . originally appeared in the Weekly Bandemataram of June 9, 1907; Baji Prabhou appered serially in the Weekly Karmayogin in 1910. It is not, however, unlikely that they had been actually written, or at least mentally sketched, during Sri Aurobindo’s last years in Baroda.

No, these poems were conceived and written in Bengal during the time of political activity.