ABSTRACT

The name of Kâlidâsa stands foremost in poetry as indrama. There is a series of Mahâkàvyas or epics inSanscrit belonging to the period of which we are nowspeaking, and the two best of them are Kâlidâsa’s. One is called Raghuvansa or the race of Raghu, .and theother is Kumâra Sambhava or the birth of Kumâra,the war god.