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Kalidas; A great poet

kalidasa a intro : Kālidās was a Classical Sanskrit writer, widely  considered   the best  poet and dramatist  within the  Sanskrit language of India. His plays and poetry are  based  on the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata  and therefore the  Puranas.  His surviving works  carries with it  three plays, two epic poems and two shorter poems. Much about his life is unknown, only what  are often  inferred from his poetry and plays. His works  can not be  dated with precision, but they were  possibly  authored within the 4th–5th century CE. Scholars have speculated that Kalidasa may have lived near the Himalayas,  within the  vicinity of Ujjain, and in Kalinga. This hypothesis  relies  on Kalidasa's detailed description of the Himalayas in his Kumārasambhava, the display of his love for Ujjain in Meghadūta, and his highly eulogistic descriptions of Kalingan emperor He...