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Kalidasa (c 1st century BC-4th century AD) famous Sanskrit poet and playwright. Nothing definitive is known about his personal life. However, it is traditionally believed that Kalidasa was one of the nine men of letters at the court of Vikramaditya, king of Ujjaini. In sanskrit literature, Kalidasa takes his place after Valmiki and Vedavyas. His country of origin is also not known. The fame of Kalidasa is mentioned in the eyehole stone inscriptions of 634.

There are many tales about Kalidasa. It is said he was orphaned in childhood and was brought up by cowherds, leaving him no opportunity for education. By a turn of fate he was married to a learned princess whom the king was attempting to teach a lesson for insolence. The princess received a big shock when she found out how unlettered Kalidasa was. But she inspired him to worship the goddess Kalika and seek her blessings for higher studies. The goddess was pleased with his worship and blessed him. From then Kalidasa seriously studied the vedas, the ramayana, the mahabharata, the puranas, history, poetry, rhetoric, prosody, gr

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Kalidasa

Classical Sanskrit poet, playwright and avatar of Brahma

This article is about the author. For the insect genus, see Kalidasa (planthopper).

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Kalidasa
A 20th-century artist's impression of Kālidāsa composing the Meghadūta
Occupation	Poet, Dramatist
Language	Sanskrit, Prakrit
Period	c. 4th-5th century CE
Genre	Sanskrit drama, Classical literature
Subject	Epic poetry, Puranas
Notable works	Kumārasambhavam, Abhijñānaśākuntalam, Raghuvaṃśa, Meghadūta, Vikramōrvaśīyam, Mālavikāgnimitram

Kālidāsa (Sanskrit: कालिदास, "Servant of Kali"; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.^[1]^[2] His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems.

Much about his life is unknown except what can be inferred from his poetry and plays.^[3] His works c

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कालिदास संक्षिप्त चरित्र

A collection from various sources.

Kalidas : Encyclopedia Americana

Written by: Walter Harding Maurer University of HawaI at Manoe KALIDASA, (kAlidAsa), India's greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist . In spite of the celebrity of his name, the time when he flourished always has been an unsettled question, although most scholars nowadays favor the middle of the 4th and early 5th centuries A.D., during the reigns of Chandragupta II VikramAditya and his successor KumAragupta . Undetermined also is the place of KAlidAsa's principal literary activity, as the frequent and minute geographic allusions in his works suggest that he traveled extensively. Numerous works have been attributed to his authorship . Most of them, however, are either by lesser poets bearing the same name or by others of some intrinsic worth, whose works simply chanced to be associated with KAlidAsa's name their own names having long before ceased to be remembered . Only seven are generally considered genuine. Plays: There are three plays, the earliest of which is probably the MalavikAgni