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	Kālidāsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kalidasa's works have not been free from interpolations and such campaign sections are notorious for being tampered with as seen in case of the campaigns in the Mahabharata.
		Kalidasa was a votary of Shiva and composing an epic poem celebrating the birth of Shiva's son would be a natural expression of devotion.
		Kalidasa refused to continue to be the princess' husband because she has taken the place of his guru, being the one directing him to the path of knowledge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kalidasa (2330 words)

	kalidasa
		Soon after the time of Kalidasa the art of citra was taken most seriously: citra verses were spread out all over a mahakavya or were mainly concentrated in one of its chapters.
		CHATTERJEE, Asoke: A critique of poetic imagery of Kalidasa in Meghaduta.
		The Meghaduta of Kalidasa (As embodied in the Parsvabhyudaya with the commentary of Mallinatha arranged accordingly and a literal English translation, various readings, critical notes and an introductory essay, determining the date of Kalidasa from the latest antiquarian researches).
	www.univie.ac.at /fb-indologie/indi_dok/kalidasa.html (3578 words)

	Kalidasa (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, as legend has it, Kalidasa had grown up without much education, and the princess was ashamed of his ignorance and coarseness.
		Kalidasa's first surviving play, Malavikagnimitra or Malavika and Agnimitra tells the story of King Agnimitra, a ruler who falls in love with the picture of an exiled servant girl named Malavika.
		Kalidasa's second play, generally considered his masterpiece, is the Shakuntala which tells the story of another king, Dushyanta, who falls in love with another girl of lowly birth, the lovely Shakuntala.
	www.imagi-nation.com.cob-web.org:8888 /moonstruck/clsc60.html (615 words)

	Cover Story
		In India, Kalidasa is recognized as the greatest poet and dramatist in Sanskrit literature.
		Kalidasa’s selection of this episode and his reference to Vidisa as the famous capital of a king in Meghaduta suggest that Kalidasa was a contemporary of Agnimitra.
		It is clear that Kalidasa flourished after Agnimitra (150 BC) and before AD 634, the date of the famous Aihole inscription which refers to Kalidasa as a great poet.
	www.splendourindia.org /splen_jul06_half/Kalidasa.htm (602 words)

	KALIDASA - Online Information article about KALIDASA
		Lassen to agree in fixing on the 3rd century A.D. as the approximate period to which the writings of Kalidasa should be referred.
		Kalidasa's fame rests chiefly on his dramas, but he is also distinguished as an epic and a lyric poet.
		It has been ascribed to the celebrated Kalidasa, but was probably written by another poet of the same name.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JUN_KHA/KALIDASA.html (1301 words)

	Kalidasa: Shakuntala and Other Works: Introduction
		Kalidasa's glory depends primarily upon the quality of his work, yet would be much diminished if he had failed in bulk and variety.
		Fully to appreciate Kalidasa's poetry one must have spent some weeks at least among wild mountains and forests untouched by man; there the conviction grows that trees and flowers are indeed individuals, fully conscious of a personal life and happy in that life.
		Kalidasa understood in the fifth century what Europe did not learn until the nineteenth, and even now comprehends only imperfectly: that the world was not made for man, that man reaches his full stature only as he realises the dignity and worth of life that is not human.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sha/sha02.htm (5218 words)

	Kalidasa - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The king is bewitched so that he forgets his bride until a ring he gave her is discovered in the body of a fish.
		In Kalidasa's two epics, Raghuvansa and Kumarasambhava, delicate descriptions of nature are mingled with battle scenes.
		Meghaduta [cloud messenger] is a description of the regions of India crossed by a cloud traveling between a tree spirit and his wife.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kalidasa.html (346 words)

	Kalidas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kalidasa (Kall's slave), an ardent worshipper of Kali, called upon his goddess to help him, and was rewarded with sudden gifts of wit and sense.
		Kalidasa speaks very little of himself, and we cannot therefore be sure of his authorship of many works attributed to him.
		Kalidasa is considered as the greatest poet of `shringaar' (or romance, beauty) His works is brimming with shringaara-rasa.
	www.cs.colostate.edu /~malaiya/kalidas.html (3462 words)

	Welcome To Holy City Ujjain - Kalidasa Academi
		The other is to establish a multi-disciplinary institution which would project the totality of classical tradition with Kalidasa as its center; provide facilities for research and study in Sanskrit classical and traditional performing arts and their adaptation for contemporary stage in different cultural and linguistic millions.
		The Kalidasa Akademi is designed to recapture the contribution of entire sanskrit classical tradition, theatre and fine arts and to represent its unique aesthetic vision to the international community.
		Kalidasa Akademi has under taken various projects of study and research as well as preservation and rediscovery of our shastriya and creative traditions.
	ujjain.nic.in /kalidasa_academi/kalidasa_academi.htm (1321 words)

	Welcome To Holy City Ujjain - Kalidasa
		Kalidasa is the great, the supreme poet of the senses, of aesthetic beauty, of sensuous emotion.
		Scholars of Kalidasa are of the opinion that Kalidasa belongs to Ujjain during between the period of second century BC.
		Kalidasa is unanimously admitted to be the greatest sanskrit poet and
	www.ujjain.nic.in /kalidasa_academi/kalidasa.htm (998 words)

	Kalidasa Biography
		The father of the Sanskrit drama is Kalidasa.
		The name of Kalidasa was early and widely known among the Western nations.
		This great poet flourished in the highly cultivated court of Vikramaditya, and was consequently the contemporary of Virgil and Horace.
	www.theatredatabase.com /ancient/kalidasa_001.html (391 words)

	Kalidasa's Meghaduta 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kalidasa is relatively straightforward, but there are many things not given in Bucknell or elementary grammars.
		Compound similes operate throughout the Megaduta, where the cloud's life-giving passage across the parched Indian landscape is an extended metaphor for the sexual congress of all nature, one difficult to render in the European tradition and foreign to the Chinese.
		Kalidasa wrote in a highly-crafted version of elevated court language.
	www.textetc.com /workshop/wt-kalidasa-1d.html (3781 words)

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		Kavyas & Kalidasa Introduction: Kavyas are the third stage of development in the history of Sanskrit literature.
		Kalidasa: He is the author 3 dramas, 2 maha kavyas and 2 lyrics.
		Greatness of Kalidasa: Kalidasa was considered as the head of all poets “Kavi Kula Guruh”.
	sanskritdocuments.org /articles/HSL-08-KAVYAS-Kalidasa.doc (1042 words)

	The Cloud Messenger - Kalidasa (trans. Franklin and Eleanor Edgerton)
		Kalidasa's classic poem, the Meghaduta ("(poem) wherein a cloud is messenger", as the Edgertons translate the title), remains a popular target for translators.
		Acknowledging that the basically quantitative metre of Sanskrit poetry can not be recreated in English, they nevertheless go to some pains to show readers how Kalidasa's poem works in the original, and what compromises were made in presenting it in English.
		Kalidasa addresses the concern in the fifth stanza, admitting "what could a message mean to a cloud", but readers certainly should be willing to accept the premise.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sanskrit/k2meghad.htm (1067 words)

	Kalidasa: Shakuntala and Other Works: The Two Minor Dramas: I.--Malavika And Agnimitra
		The war with the King of Vidarbha seems to be an historical occurrence, and the fight with the Greek cavalry force is an echo of the struggle with Menander, in which the Hindus were ultimately victorious.
		It was natural for Kalidasa to lay the scene of his play in Bhilsa rather than in the far-distant Patna, for it is probable that many in the audience were acquainted with the former city.
		Yet in Kalidasa's day, the glories of the Sunga dynasty were long departed, nor can we see why the poet should have chosen his hero and his era as he did.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/sha/sha13.htm (1877 words)

	Kalidasa and Sanskrit poetry.
		By common assent, Kalidasa is one of the world's supreme poets.
		Scholars even dispute Kalidasa's dates, though he clearly wrote for a highly-civilized princely court, either of the 5th century AD Guptas or the 1st century BC Paramara dynasty.
		An extended section on Kalidasa and translating Sanskrit verse is here.
	www.poetrymagic.co.uk /poets/kalidasa.html (526 words)

	ANCIENT INDIAN DRAMA
		Kalidasa was considered as Ratna (Gem) in the adorned court of Vikramaditya.
		Kalidasa shows the greatest love of nature and art in Shakuntala.
		Kalidasa says less and suggests more while Bhavabhuti says more and suggests less.
	www.bharatiyadrama.com /ancientindiandrama.htm (1087 words)

	Ethics of India 30 BC To 1300 by Sanderson Beck (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The only female who speaks Sanskrit in Kalidasa's plays is the Buddhist nun, who judges the dance contest and explains that Malavika had to be a servant for a year in order to fulfill a prophecy that she would marry a king after doing so.
		Kalidasa's elegy, The Cloud-Messenger, describes how the Yaksha Kubera, an attendant of the god of Wealth, who has been exiled from the Himalayas to the Vindhya mountains for a year, sends a cloud as a messenger to his wife during the romantic rainy season.
		Kalidasa is also believed to be the author of a poem on the six seasons in India.
	www.san.beck.org.cob-web.org:8888 /AB2-India.html (21957 words)

	Kalidasa's Meghaduta 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Devadhar version is also prose, but elevated, closer to Edwardian prose-poetry, and that diction also appears in the children's verse of rendering 15 — inexplicably, as Barbara Stoler Miller was a noted Sanskrit scholar and translator.
		E. Hultzsch's Kalidasa's Meghaduta: Manuscripts With the Commentary of Vallabhadeva and Provided With a Complete Sanskrit-English Vocabulary (1911/1998) {32} compares the listings of ten authorities to arrive at an 'authentic' 110 verses, but the version by M.R. Kale (which McComas Taylor adopts) allows 120 verses.
		But the rewards are an appreciation of a beautiful and learned language, and a glimpse of traditions that enrich our understanding of south and southeast Asia.
	www.textetc.com /workshop/wt-kalidasa-1.html (2352 words)

	Alibris: Kalidasa
		Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE).
		The "Kumarasambhava" of Kalidasa, probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit.
		The love story of the God and Goddess Shiva and Parvati, who are both lovers and cosmic principles, the poem is a paradigm of the union between male and female played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Kalidasa (446 words)

	kalidasa and sanskrit poetry
		Apart from Sunkuntala, however, which was known to Goethe and Apollinaire, Kalidasa's work is not well represented in European books or the Internet.
		Only a few works are undisputably by Kalidasa – plays: Malavikaagnimitra, Vikramorvashiiya and Abhigyaanashaakuntala; epic poems: Khumaarasambhava and Raguvamsha; lyric poems: Meghdoot and possibly Ritusamhaara.
		To these excellent reasons for reading it, should be added a closer integration of poet and landscape, and the spiritual basis of its civilization.
	www.poetry-portal.com /poets3.html (388 words)

	Milind Sonam: Kalidasa's new voice
		Kalidasa may have been one of India’s greatest poets, but not too many in this generation or for that matter, in the last few generations have read him.
		But thanks to a local pub cum restaurant in Mumbai, a chosen few-meaning those who chose to be there at the venue-heard the greatness of the poet’s work.
		Point is, though Kalidasa’s work was mesmerizing, the smashingly good looking guy who was reading it only made it that much more...er---hearable.
	www.bollyvista.com /article/p/32/699 (101 words)

	Uttarakalamritam by Kalidasa
		This work is ascribed to Kalidasa of the court of Vikramasurya-itself a proper name suggesting Vikrama of the solar race.
		A part of the work is called (Kalidasa krita) and indeed Sri V. Suryanarayana Siddhantigaru, who has published the original work in Telugu Characters, describes this as an astrological work of the Maha Kavi Kalidasa, giving a colophon at the end of each chapter in Telugu that this Uttarakalamrita was the work of Sri Kalidasa.
		In any case, the author of this work, important as it is in the field of astrology, ought not to be confused and mixed up or identified with the immortal poet of that name, as even the intrinsic evidence is against it.
	www.astrojyoti.com /Uttarakalamritam.htm (1118 words)

	The Loom of Time - Kalidasa - Penguin UK
		Kalidasa is the major poet and dramatist of classical Sanskrit literature - a many-sided talent of extraordinary scope and exquisite language.
		His great poem, 'Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger)', tells of a divine being, punished for failing in his sacred duties with a years' separation from his beloved.
		And Kalidasa's poem 'Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons)' is an exuberant observation of the sheer variety of the natural world, as it teems with the energies of the great god Siva.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140455212,00.html (165 words)

	Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala
		The claim that the ancient Athenians invented drama may hold true for the West, but Indian writers argue that theater was highly developed even earlier in Sanskrit.
		No plays survive from those early times, however, and the dates of Kalidasa, the greatest of the Sanskrit playwright, while much disputed, are clearly centuries later--perhaps a millennium later--than Aeschylus and his fellow tragic writers.
		There is no tradition of tragedy in India, and Kalidasa's plays always have happy endings.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/love-in-the-arts/sakuntala.html (4392 words)

	Kalidasa [u.a.]: Messenger poems [Indologica]
		Sanskrit Messenger poems evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved.
		The first was the "Cloud Messenger," composed by Sanskrit's finest poet, Kalidasa, in the fifth century CE.
		The next was its imitator, the "Wind Messenger," composed in praise of King Lákshmanasena of Gauda (Bengal) in the twelfth century by Dhoyi, one of his court poets.
	indologica.blogg.de /eintrag.php?id=855 (209 words)

	Kalidasa books, find the lowest prices
		Bhasa Aura Kalidasa Ke Natakom Ka Vivecanatamaka Adhyayana : Vibhinna Granthom Mem Upalabdha Kathaom Ke adhara Para
		Kalidasa Ke Rupakom Mem Trasadiya Tattva : Pascatya Kavyasastra Evam Kalidasa Ke Rupaka Eka Tulanatmaka Adhyayana
		Kalidasa Racita Meghaduta Ke Virahi Gitom Ka Svarankana
	www.allbookstores.com /Kalidasa_st.html (108 words)

	Kalidasa : Poems and Biography
		Abhijnanasakuntalam of Kalidasa, by Kalidasa / Translated by Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale
		The Origin of the Young God: Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Translated by Hank Heifetz
		Please support the Poetry Chaikhana, as well as the authors and publishers of sacred poetry, by purchasing some of the recommended books through the links on this site.
	www.poetry-chaikhana.com /K/Kalidasa/index.htm (726 words)

	Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works ToC: The Online Library of Liberty
		Kalidasa moved among the jarring sects with sympathy for all, fanaticism for none.
		The natural medium of translation into English seems to me to be the rhymed stanza;1 in the present work the rhymed stanza has been used, with a consistency perhaps too rigid, wherever the original is in verse.
		On Kalidasa’s life and writings may be consulted A. Macdonell’s History of Sanskrit Literature (1900); the same author’s article “Kalidasa” in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1910); and Sylvain Lévi’s Le Théâtre Indien (1890).
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML-voice.php?recordID=0307 (10396 words)

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