A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature With Appendices Descriptive of the Mythology
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In the Drama, Kalidasa has been designated the Indian Shake- speare. Under the present head, therefore, we shall com- mence with some account of that great poet and his works. 11. Kalidasa. Kalidasa is reputed to have been one of the ornaments (or " gems ") of the court of Yikramaditya, king of Ujayin, whose reign, used as a chronological epoch by the Hindus, is placed fifty-six years before the Christian era. His poems, undoubtedly, belong to a classical period of Hindu literature, and " that ...period, there is reason to believe (says Professor "Wilson), did not long survive the first centuries of Christianity. The poets of later date were men of more scholarship than imagination, and substituted an artificial display of the powers of lan- guage for the enforced utterance of the feeling or the fancy. " The most celebrated, perhaps, of the works of Kalidasa 130 HANDBOOK OF SANSKRIT LITERATURE. is his Sakuntald, or " the Fatal Ring, " a drama, in seven acts, the plot of which is taken from an episode of the Mahabharata.
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