Introducing Savitri

...the original story as it appears in our epics is repeated in most of the Puranas. ... Sri Aurobindo, when he was studying this poem among others, was struck by some truth that was looming behind this apparently simple story. He saw in it a recordation of some great event that must have taken place in an early cycle of the Aryan people, and which had to be reopened. It was the names and the characters in the poem that gave him the clue. Satyavan is one who carries the truth - satyam vahati iti. ... And Savitri the saviour is the daughter of Savitr, the Creator, the creative splendour. ... And he calls it a legend and a symbol: a legend about something that has taken place in the history of man and a symbol of what is going on and of what is going to be. -p1,3,4