Following his Sitayana (1987) Prof. Iyengar's Saga of Seven Mothers: Satisaptakam is a re-telling in verse of select Tales from India's munificent Epi and Puranic heritage, notably the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and the Tamil classic, Silappadhikaran (The Lay of the Anklet). The Seven Satis invoked here - DEVAHUTI, SUKANYA, DEVAYANI, DAMAYANTI, RENUKA, DRAUPADI AND KANNAKI - team into a spectrum a archetypal variety projecting almost a parable of Evolution spanning a whole Yoga 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. As in Sitayana, Satisaptakam too, the focus is less on the Protagonist male and much more on the Sati-heroine and her psychic compulsion to face and master increasingly difficult or complex situations thrown up by the evolutionary drive that carries the race forward, from the Gold and Silver to the Bronze and Iron Ages. Insoluble and autonomous on a first view, the Seven Tales can nevertheless be viewed as a Rainbow Arc of the Eternal Feminine, as ensemble of Sati-images that are no doubt reminiscently 'old world' Itihasic and Puranic, yet not lacking in perennial as well as pointedly contemporaneous app