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    Kālidāsa (4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright. His plays and poetry...
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  • Kaviratna Kalidasa (transl. Poet Kalidasa) is a 1983 Kannada-language historical drama film based on the life of Kālidāsa, a renowned Classical Sanskrit...
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    Kalidasa lanata is a species of planthopper in the family Fulgoridae found in India. It has been proposed that it should be called Kalidasa albiflos contrary...
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    Kalidasa lanata (Drury, 1773) Kalidasa lui Wang & Huang, 1989 Kalidasa nigromaculata (Gray, 1832) synonym Kalidasa paulinia (Signoret, 1862) Kalidasa...
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    Kālidāsā is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Kalidasa is named for the Indian writer Kālidāsa...
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  • Mahakavi Kalidasa is 1955 Indian Kannada-language film directed by K. R. Seetharama Sastry, in his debut direction. The movie is based on the legends of...
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    2km 1.2miles Kalidasa Kalakendram    Kalidasa Kalakendram is a professional drama theatrical group founded by O. Madhavan, a well-known Malayalam theatre...
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  • Kalidasa Kannada Meshtru (transl. Kalidasa Kannada teacher) is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film directed by Kaviraj and starring Jaggesh...
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    Shakuntala (play) (category Works by Kalidasa)
    ancient Indian poet Kālidāsa, dramatizing the story of Śakuntalā told in the epic Mahābhārata and regarded as the best of Kālidāsa's works. Its exact date...
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  • free dictionary. Kālidāsa was a Sanskrit writer. Kalidas or Kalidasa may also refer to: Kalidas (film), a 1931 Tamil language film Kālidāsā (crater), a crater...
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  • Raghuvaṃśa (category Works by Kalidasa)
    (1888) The Raghuvamsha of Kâlidâsa: with the commentary of Mallinatha English prose translation (author unknown) in Kalidasa: Works, South Asia Books,...
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  • Chandragupta II, Kumaragupta I and Skandagupta. The 4th-century CE Sanskrit poet Kalidasa credits the Guptas with having conquered about twenty-one kingdoms, both...
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    Meghadūta (category Works by Kalidasa)
    (Sanskrit: मेघदूत literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest Sanskrit...
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    Abhijñānaśākuntalam (The Recognition of Śakuntalā, and other dramas of Kālidāsa (c. 5th century CE) and Mahākāvya poetry. In Tamil literature, the Sangam...
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  • Kumārasambhava (category Works by Kalidasa)
    कुमारसम्भवम् "The Birth of Kumāra") is an epic poem by Kālidāsa. It is widely regarded as the finest work of Kālidāsa as well as the greatest kāvya poem in Classical...
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    Shakuntala and the father of Bharata. He appears in the Mahabharata and in Kalidasa's play, Abhijnanashakuntalam (c. 300 CE). According to the Mahabharata,...
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    Shakuntala (section Kalidasa)
    Mahabharata, and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaptation being Kalidasa's play Abhijñānaśākuntala (The Sign of Shakuntala). There are two different...
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  • Kalidasa Academy is a cultural institution established by the Government of Madhya Pradesh to act as a multi-disciplinary institution, which would project...
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  • Bhāsa is one of the earliest Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kālidasa. Estimates of his floruit range from the 4th century BCE to the 4th century...
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    Kālidāsa in the 4th-5th century CE, was arguably one of ancient India's greatest Sanskrit dramatists. Three famous romantic plays written by Kālidāsa...
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  • after him. The history of his dynasty is elaborated upon by the poet Kalidasa in his Raghuvamsha. He is the great-grandfather of Rama, an avatar of Vishnu...
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  • Jyotirvid-abharana (22.10), a treatise attributed to Kalidasa. According to this text, the following 9 scholars (including Kalidasa himself) attended Vikramaditya's court:...
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  • Chandran, starring Sivaji Ganesan. It is based on the life of the poet Kalidasa. The film was released on 19 August 1966. Sivaji Ganesan as Chinnaiah /...
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    attributed to Kalidasa, nine noted scholars (the Navaratnas) were at Vikramaditya's court: Vidyasimha Dhanavantari Ghatakarapara Kalidasa Kshapanaka Shanku...
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  • Mālavikāgnimitram (category Works by Kalidasa)
    Mālavikāgnimitram (Sanskrit, meaning Mālavikā and Agnimitra) is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. Based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga, it is his first...
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    R. Singh Dr Buddha Prakash maintains that, based on the evidence of Kalidasa's Raghuvamsha, Raghu defeated the Hunas on river Vamkshu (Raghu vamsha 4...
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  • (Thambi Ramaiah ). Naveen (Tejus) is Kalidasa's nephew who comes to stay with him while looking for a job. Kalidasa has a normal life until he gets a misdialed...
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  • Govinda-bhaṭṭa, known by his pen name Akbariya Kālidāsa ("Kalidasa of Akbar"), was a 16th-century Sanskrit-language court poet from present-day India...
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  • Mahakavi Kalidas is a Bollywood film directed by Niren Lahiri. It was released in 1942. After falling in love with a woman from a lower caste, a naive...
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    or clown (vidusaka). Actors may have specialized in a particular type. Kālidāsa in the 1st century BCE, is arguably considered to be ancient India's greatest...
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