Kalidasa has been the national poet of India and the brightest star in the firmament of Indian Poetry for the last two thousand years. He has been unanimously acclaimed as the greatest Sanskrit poet. His genius has been acknowledged, appreciated and admired by poets, critics and the literary public alike. Kalidasa enjoys a high rank among global poets like Dante, Goethe, Shakespeare etc. Scholars are of different opinions regarding his date. Different theories place him anywhere between 200 BC to 600 AD. Tradition mentions Kalidasa as a contemporary and court poet of King Vikramaditya who founded an era known after his name, commencing with 57 B.C. Hence, most of the scholars opine that Kalidasa flourished in First Century B.C.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:47:23 +0000
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