Question: Which of the following was not written by Kalidas? (NSCL 2019)
Options:
Kumar Sambhavam
Laghujatakam
Meghdootam
Raghuvansham
-Kumar Sambhavam, Meghdootam, and Raghuvansham are all famous works by the renowned Sanskrit poet Kalidasa
-Laghujatakam is an astrological text and is not attributed to Kalidasa.
🔑Key Points:
-Nitisara is NOT written by Kalidasa.
-An old Indian treatise on politics and statecraft is called Nitisara or the Nitisara of Kamandaki.
-It was written by Chanakya's student Kamandaka, also known as Kamandaki or Kamandakiya.
-Despite the fact that it is actually a recension based on Sukra Nitisara of the fourth century BCE, current scholarship places its dating between the third and seventh centuries CE, between the Gupta and Harsha periods.
-It is traditionally dated to the fourth and third centuries BCE. There are 19 sections in it.
-Mahakavi Kalidas, who is arguably the greatest Sanskrit virtuoso, wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam about 2,500 years ago.
-The most renowned Sanskrit poet, Kalidasa, is the author of the epic poem Raghuvaa in Sanskrit.
-The four- or five-act Sanskrit play Vikramrvayam, written by the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa, is based on the Vedic love narrative between King Pururavas and the beautiful Apsar (celestial nymph) rva.
🔴Additional information::
-The finest poet and playwright of classical Sanskrit literature in ancient India is frequently regarded as Klidasa (c. 4th–5th century CE).
-The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabarata, and the Puranas are the main sources for his plays and poems.
-Three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems are all that are left of his writings.