Kalidas biography in sanskrit script
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Kalidasa: Life and Works
Source: Introduction to Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works, by Arthur W. Ryder (London: J.M. Dent, 1920).
INTRODUCTION . KALIDASA—HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS
Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the remarkable problems of literary history. For our ignorance is not due to neglect of Kalidasa’s writings on the part of his countrymen, but to their strange blindness in regard to the interest and importance of historic fact. No European nation can compare with India in critical devotion to its own literature. During a period to be reckoned not by centuries but by millenniums, there has been in India an unbroken line of savants unselfishly dedicated to the perpetuation and exegesis of the native masterpieces. Editions, recensions, commentaries abound; poets have sought the exact phrase of appreciation for their predecessors: yet when we seek to reconstruct the life of their greates
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Kalidasa and his works
Kalidasa biography:
Kalidasa’s biography is an interesting one to read. His works started in the 4th century CE. He was a Sanskrit poet. He is well known as the greatest poet of all times. His works are mainly on ” Vedas” of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Kalidasa Birth and death:
Kalidasa Birthplace:
Kalidasa might live in the Himalayas. The work kumarasambhava by Kalidas poet displays his interest on Himalayas and Ujjain place which shows he might lived in that place. Some other poets wrote in their works about Kalidasa birth place .Kalidasa’s birth and death are not exactly traceable, some books say he lived in Kashmir and then moved towards the South.
Kalidasa birth and death are notably not recorded in any of the books, but some hypothetical years of estimation is made. Kalidasa’s birth took place in the 4th century CE, died between 4-5 century CE.
The growth of Kalidas as a poet-kalidas poet:
The Kalidas biography is also an inspirational one. A court’s minister’s son gets rejected for a marriage proposal by the princess. Then the frustrated minister sends the most eligible Kalidas shepherd to the princess. The Kalidas poet was not able to digest the insult and started learning Sanskrit.
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