KALIDASA - THE GREAT POET

                      KALIDASA

Mahakavi Kalidasa is considered as one of the greatest Sanskrit poets and dramatists of India. He was one of the so-called nine gems of Vikramaditya’s court in Ujjain.

Kalidasa wrote seven plays. ‘Malavika Gnimitra’, Vikramorvahiya’ and ‘Abhijana Shakuntalam’ are his celebrated plays. The play ‘Abhijana Shakuntalam’ is based on the events and characters taken from the Mahabharata. It is a famous play not only in India but throughout the world and was the first of his plays to have been translated into English and German.

Kalidasa is also known for his famous poems. ‘Kumarasambhava’ and ‘Raghuvamsha’ are his two epic poems and ‘Meghaduta’ and ‘Ritusamhara’ are lyrical poems.

  
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