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    Meghadūta (Sanskrit: मेघदूत literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest...
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    Himalayas in his Kumārasambhavam, the display of his love for Ujjain in Meghadūta, and his highly eulogistic descriptions of Kalingan emperor Hemāngada...
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    opulence, and overall splendour. It is quoted in the Sanskrit lyrical poem Meghadūta by Kalidasa. Kubera establishes his rule over the yakshas and founds his...
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  • of Meghaduta by Dr R. Ganesh (starts at minute 0:18). Recitation of first stanza of Meghadūta by Sangeeta Gundecha. Two recitations of Meghadūta (minutes...
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    Gomedha or Sarvahna Dharanendra or Parshvayaksha Matanga In Kālidāsa's poem Meghadūta, for instance, the yakṣa narrator is a romantic figure, pining with love...
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  • Virkar. New Native Press, 2003. ISBN 1-883197-18-X. The translation of Meghadūta by Kusumagraj was visualised by watercolour artist Nana Joshi. These visualisations...
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    highest peak, perpetually covered with snow. The Kumārasambhava and the Meghadūta by Kālidāsa also have similar descriptions of Kailasha. Mount Kailasha...
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    its two poetic predecessors, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta and Valmīki's Ramāyana. Vedanta Desika's use of the Meghaduta is extensive and transparently deliberate;...
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    Sunga, has mentioned about the rituals of the temple in his works in Meghadūta. He mentions about the nada-aradhana, the performance of art and dance...
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    Kubera's magnificent court appears in the Mahabharata as well as the Meghaduta. Here, gandharvas and apsaras entertain Kubera. Shiva and his wife Parvati...
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    1933. He eventually read literary works such as the Bhagavad Gita and Meghaduta in the original Sanskrit, and deeply pondered them. He later cited the...
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    prose. He translated the Rubáiyát (1932) of Omar Khayyám, the Sanskrit Meghadūta (1944) of Kalidas, and the collection of poems Gitanjali (1959) of Rabindranath...
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  • motif, Dhoyin’s messenger poem was much more than a mere pastiche of the Meghadūta. Dhoyin devoted nearly half of his work (48 out of 104 stanzas) to describing...
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    lived in the times of the Gupta king Vikramaditya wrote his epic work Meghadūta in which he describes the richness of Ujjain and its people. In the 6th...
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    Gabbilam (1941) is Jashuva's best known work, fashioned after Kālidāsa's Meghadūta (The Cloud Messenger), in which an exiled lover attempts to communicate...
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    incarnation of Vishnu just in the disguise as a son. Kalidasa, in his poetry Meghadūta epitomizing wish-fulfilling trees found in the capital of the Yaksha king...
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    Eastern Pictures (1909–10) and The Cloud Messenger (a setting of the Meghadūta, 1910, premiered in 1913). Towards the end of the nineteenth century,...
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    length poems include: the Ṛtusaṃhāra, the Ghatakarpara Kavyam, and the Meghadūta of Kālidāsa (the most famous of all Sanskrit poets) which popularized...
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  • Kerala. A Malayalam prose translation of Kālidāsa's Sanskrit lyric poem Meghadūta is one of his famous works. "Portrait of Kodupunna Govinda Ganakan"....
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    related to the Sanskrit poet Kalidasa. It is believed that Kalidasa wrote Meghadūta in the hills of Ramtek. Ramtek is also known for its ancient Jain temple...
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    free translation in English rhymed verse of Kalidasa's lyrical poem, the Meghadūta, or Cloud-Messenger. He prepared the first Sanskrit–English Dictionary...
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  • wrestling, which describes techniques of wrestling, types of exercises etc. Meghadūta: Poem by Classical Sanskrit author, playwright and dramatist Kālidāsa...
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    sources of this age were Kalidasa's works. Raghuvamsa, Malavikagnimitram, Meghadūta, Abhijñānaśākuntala and Kumārasambhava, Mṛcchakatika by Shudraka, Panchatantra...
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    Kumara"), and two smaller epics, Ṛitusaṃhāra ("Medley of Seasons") and Meghadūta (The Cloud Messenger), another 'perfect' work. Kālidāsa's writing is characterized...
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  • derives from the second verse of the Sanskrit dramatist Kalidas's play Meghadūta. It means A day in (the month of) Ashadh. Since the month of Ashadh is...
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    the Puranas, the Upanishads, as well as in poetic texts like Kalidasa's Meghadūta and Abhigyanam Shakuntalam. Tagore was one of the greatest narrators of...
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    limit the spread of the Great Plague of London, and the Sanskrit poem "Meghadūta" by Kālidāsa, in which a cloud carries a message from an exile to his...
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  • Abhijñānaśākuntalam (अभिज्ञान शाकुन्तलम्, "The Recognition of Shakuntala"), Meghadūta (मेघदूत, "Cloud Messenger"), Vikramōrvaśīyam (विक्रमोर्वशीयम्, "Urvashi...
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    first wife, was brought up in Vidisha. It finds mention in Kalidasa's Meghaduta. The ruins of Besnagar were inspected by Alexander Cunningham in 1874–1875...
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    Vikramōrvaśīyam and poems like Raghuvaṃśa, Kumārasambhava, Ṛtusaṃhāra and Meghadūta in which the use of imagination and similes remains unequaled by any other...
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