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The play depicts Kalidasa as a court poet of Chandragupta who faces a trial on the insistence of a priest and some other moralists of his time. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Despite these criticisms, many regard Canto VIII as the pinnacle of Kalidasa's poetic mastery, and it is cited more frequently in major critical works like the Alaṃkārasutra and the ...
Kumara Sambhavam is a 1969 Indian Malayalam-language Hindu mythological film directed and produced by P. Subramaniam. Based on the epic poem of the poet Kalidasa of the same name, it stars Gemini Ganesan, Padmini, Srividya and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair. [1] The film won the first ever Kerala State Film Award for Best Film. [2]
Kumara Sambhavam is not the translation of Kalidasa's work of the same name. But Nannechodudu has drawn inspiration from Kalidasa's work as well as other stories of the Saivaite literature. [5] Nannechoda’s Kumara Sambhavam is not a literal translation of Kalidasa's work but an original prabandha that draws on various Puranic sources. His ...
Kumāradāsa is the author of a Sanskrit Mahākāvya called the Jānakī-haraṇa or Jānakī's abduction. Jānakī is another name of Sita, wife of Rama.Sita was abducted by Ravana when she along with the Rama, exiled from his kingdom, and Lakshmana was living in a forest which incident is taken from Ramayana ('Rama's Journey'), the great Hindu epic written by Valmiki.
Scholars have speculated that Kālidāsa may have lived near the Himalayas, in the vicinity of Ujjain, and in Kalinga.This hypothesis is based on Kālidāsa's detailed description of the Himalayas in his Kumārasambhavam, the display of his love for Ujjain in Meghadūta, and his highly eulogistic descriptions of Kalingan emperor Hemāngada in Raghuvaṃśa (sixth sarga).
[1] [4] [7] [8] [9] His Sanskrit lyric poem Ghanavrttam [10] is a sequel to Kalidasa's Meghaduta. Ramachandra Sastri authored more than thirty works in Sanskrit and Telugu [2] [11] but only a few books are extant. His books give us an appreciation of the advanced poetic and linguistic aspects of his literary works.
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A poem of 120 [3] stanzas, it is one of Kālidāsa's most famous works.The work is divided into two parts, Purva-megha and Uttara-megha. It recounts how a yakṣa, a subject of King Kubera (the god of wealth), after being exiled for a year to Central India for neglecting his duties, convinces a passing cloud to take a message to his wife at Alaka on Mount Kailāsa in the Himālaya mountains. [4]