Kalidasa Kalidasa

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Enter a Superintendent of Police with two Officers, leading a man with his hands bound.
First Officer:

"Oh, dear, now the kingly monsoon is onset with its clouds containing raindrops, as its ruttish elephants in its convoy, and with skyey flashes of lighting as its pennants and buntings, and with the thunders of thunderbolts as its percussive…

"Oh, dear, with the just unfolded tender leaflets of Mango trees as his incisive arrows, and with shining strings of honeybees as his bowstring, the assailant named Vasanta came very nigh, to afflict the hearts of those that are fully…

King Dushyant in a chariot, pursuing an antelope, with a bow and quiver, attended by his Charioteer.
Suta (Charioteer). [Looking at the antelope, and then at the king] When I cast my eye on that black antelope, and on thee,
O king, with…

Even the man who is happyglimpses somethingor a hair of sound touches himand his heart overflows with a longinghe does not recognizethen it must be that he is rememberingin a place out of reachshapes he has lovedin a life before thisthe print of…

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An old Chamberlain, sighing.

The autumn comes, a maiden
In slenderness and grace,
With nodding rice-stems in her
And lilies in her face.

Your naturally beautiful reflection will gain entry into the clear waters of
Gambhira River, as into a clear mind.
Therefore it is not fitting that you, outof obstinancy, should render futile her glances which are the darting leaps…

Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.

Where the palaces are worthy of comparison to you in these various aspects:
you possess lightning, they have lovely women; you have a rainbow, they arefurnished with pictures; they have music provided by resounding drums, youproduce deep,…

"On the departure of rainy season bechanced is autumn with a heart-pleasingly bloomed lotus as her face, betokening the heart-pleasing face of a new bride, and the autumnal fields of white grass with whitish flowers as her apparel, which…

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WN before the Cottage.
The two damsels are discovered gathering flowers.

"Delightful are trees and fields with the outgrowth of new tender-leaves and crops,
Lodhra trees are with their blossomy flowers, crops of rice are completely ripened, but now lotuses are on their surcease by far, for the dewdrops are…

The slender young woman who is there would be the premier creation by
Creator in the sphere of women, with fine teeth, lips like a ripe bimba fruit, aslim waist, eyes like a startled gazelle’s, a deep navel, a gait slow on accountof the…

A certain yaksha who had been negligent in the execution of his own duties,
on account of a curse from his master which was to be endured for a year andwhich was onerous as it separated him from his beloved, made his residenceamong the…

"Oh, dear, this utterly sweltering season of the highly rampant sun is drawing nigh, and it will always be good enough to go on taking daytime baths, as the lakes and rivers will still be with plenteous waters, and at the end of the day,…

"Oh, dear with best thighs, heart-stealing is this environ with abundantly grown stacks of rice and their cobs, or with sugarcane, and it is reverberated with the screeches of ruddy gees that abide hither and thither… now heightened will be…

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King Dushyant with Matali in the chariot of Indra (king of gods in heaven and also god of thunder), supposed to be above the clouds.
King Dushyant:
I am sensible

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IN, with royal pavilions on the skirt of the forest.
Madhavya. (Emperor's court jester)[Sighing and

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GE in a Grove.
The Hermit's Pupil bearing consecrated grass.