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		The former is concerned with the events that lead to the marriage of the god Shiva and Paarvatii, daughter of the Himaalaya.
		The Raghuvamsha treats of the family to which the great hero Rama belonged, commencing with its earliest antecedents and encapsulating the principal events told in the RaamaayaNa of Vaalmikii.
		But like the Kumaarasambhava, the last nine cantos of which are clearly the addition of another poet, the Raghuvamsha ends rather abruptly, suggesting either that it was left unfinished by the poet or that its final portion was lost early.
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		Kumara being another name of kartikeya and the birth of this war god is tied to birth of the Gupta king.In addition, Kalidasa's mention of Huns in Raghuvamsha is taken as veiled reference to Skandagupta's victory over them.
		It is not correct to assume that the tribes mentioned there were not known prior to Gupta campaigns.Kalidasa's work have not been free from interpolations and such campaign sections are notorios for tampering as seen in case of the campaigns in the Mahabharata.
		In addition to his plays, Kalidasa wrote two surviving epic poems Raghuvamsha (Dynasty of Raghu) and Kumarasambhava (Birth of the War God), as well as the lyrical Meghaduta (Cloud Messenger) and Ritusamhāra (The Exposition on the Seasons).
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	Raguvamsha of Kalidasa
		Raghuvamsha has many commentaries, but one generally accessible and understandable is that of
		We are attempting Raghuvamsha in the series of word for word translations, after Valmiki Ramayana, Ritu samhaaram, Gita Govindam, only to tell apart the words used by the poet and their meanings.
		Since this work of ours is not the grand finale to the purport of this poem, please treat this as a guidebook to masterwork, since it a fanciful and humble attempt to say what the poet had said.
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