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Kalidasa: Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Arthur W. Ryder; Biography of Kalidasa; Works by Kalidasa at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about Kalidasa at the Internet Archive; Clay Sanskrit Library publishes classical Indian literature, including the works of Kalidasa with Sanskrit facing-page text and translation. Also offers ...
English prose translation (author unknown) in Kalidasa: Works, South Asia Books, 1901; P. de Lacy Johnstone (1902), The Raghuvança, the story of Raghu's line; Arthur W. Ryder (1914), Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works (113 verses are translated, the rest are summarised in prose) Carlo Formichi (1917), La Stirpe Di Raghu (Italian ...
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 ...
Palm-leaf manuscript cover illustrated with scenes from Kalidasa’s Shakuntala play, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, circa 12th century. Plots similar to the play appear in earlier texts. There is a story mentioned in the Mahābhārata. A story of similar plot appear in the Buddhist Jātaka tales as well. In the Mahābhārata the story appears as a ...
Shakuntala (Sanskrit: शकुन्तला, romanized: Śakuntalā) is a heroine in Indian literature, best known for her portrayal in the ancient Sanskrit play Abhijnanashakuntalam (The Recognition of Shakuntala), written by the classical poet Kalidasa in the 4th or 5th century CE.
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]
Uttara Kalamrita [1] is a reference work on Vedic astrology or Jyotisa.It is also termed as sidereal astrology, written by Kalidasa.However, it is unknown whether the Kalidasa who wrote this work is the same Kalidasa who wrote Raghuvamsha and Abhijñānaśākuntalam.
The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit ) on the left-hand page, with its English translation on the right.