Kalidasa probably lived
in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is,
must yet be given with considerable hesitation and is by no means certain. No
truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless
enjoyed great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded
as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the
remarkable problems of literary history. Our ignorance is not due to
neglect of Kalidasa's writings on the part of his countrymen but to their
strange blindness concerning the interest and importance of historical fact.
Let us know about the
first verse from Raghuvamsam.
वागर्थाविव सम्प्रुक्तौ वागर्थप्रतिपत्तये l
जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ
ll
VAgarthAviva sampruktau
vAgarthapratipattaye l
Jagatah pitarau vande
pArvatIparameshvarau ll
This is an opening sloka in Divine
poet Kalidasa's Raghuvamsam.
Kalidasa prayed,
"The Devine parents Sri Parvathi and Parameshwara to guide and bless him with
the power words and their meanings to gain/acquire knowledge and to use/club
super words to get great meanings while scripting the treasure of literature."
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