Preetirasaprapa

Following his Sitayana (1987), Prof. Iyengar's Saga of Seven Mothers: Satīsaptakam is a re-telling in verse of select Tales from India's munificent Epic and Puranic heritage, notably the Maha-bharata, the Bhagavata and the Tamil classic, Silappadhikaram (The Lay of the Anklet'). The Seven Satis invoked here DEVAHUTI, SUKANYA, DEVAYANI, DAMAYANTI, RENUKA, DRAUPADI, and KANNAKI - team into a spectrum of archetypal variety projecting almost a parable of Evolution spanning a whole Yuga Cycle. These Seven near-apocalyptic visions of maidenhood-womanhood-motherhood, distinctive in their tints and contours, nevertheless merge into the all-inclusive Ray, the pure White of Adya Shakti.