Kalidasa कालिदास
poet · Gupta India · c. 4th–5th century
A poet who wrote poems and plays in Sanskrit. He is said to have been at the Gupta court, but almost nothing is known of his life.
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c. 4th–5th century
On Rama's shady peak where hermits roam,
Mid streams by Sita's bathing sanctified,
An erring Yaksha made his hapless home,
Doomed by his master humbly to abide,
And spend a long, long year of absence from his bride.The Cloud Messenger (Meghaduta), the first stanza · in place of the original: the English translation by Arthur W. Ryder (1912)
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