Автор:KALIDASA Год: 2010 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 102 ISBN: 9781612030289 Of the history of Kalidasa, to whom by general assent the Kumara Sambhava, or Birth of the War-God, is attributed, we know but little with any certainty; we can only gather from a memorial-verse which enumerates their names, that he was one of the 'Nine Precious Stones' that shone at the Court of Vikramaditya, King of Oujein, in the half century immediately preceding the Christian era. As the examination of arguments for and against the correctness of this date is not likely to interest general readers, I must request them to rest satisfied with the belief that about the time when Virgil and Horace were shedding an undying lustre upon the reign of Augustus, our poet Kalidasa lived, loved, and sang, giving and taking honour, at the polished court of the no less munificent patron of Sanskrit literature, at the period of its highest perfection. Little as we know of Indian poetry, here and there an English reader may be found, who is not entirely unacquainted with the name or works of...
