A folktale about Mahakavi Kalidasa - कालिदासः - A story to illustrate the poet's brilliance
A lesson on the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa given titles like Upamakavi, Mahakavi and Kavikulaguru. Several Folktales exist around the life of this great poet. This lesson is a small story that depicts Kalidasa's intellectual brilliance at making the best of even the most common occurrences. His poetic excellence is one of best in literature and this story brings out the same. Kalidasa is told to have stayed in either king Vikramaditya's or king Bhoja's court, due to absence of solid facts. But he is acclaimed as one of the Navarathnas or nine gems in the court - Dhanvanthari, Kshapanaka, Amarasimha, Shanku, Vethalabhatta, Ghatakarpara (or Harisena), Kalidasa, Varahamihira. More details here: https://www.gktoday.in/topic/9-gems-navratnas-of-chandragupta-vikramaditya/ A Shloka with the names of the Navarathnas is as follows: धन्वन्तरि-क्षपणिकामरसिंह-शङ्कु-वेतालभट्ट-घटकर्पर-कालिदासाः । ख्यातो वराहमिहिरो नृपतेः सभायां रत्नानि वै वररुचिः नव विक्रमस्य ।।
A lesson on the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa given titles like Upamakavi, Mahakavi and Kavikulaguru. Several Folktales exist around the life of this great poet. This lesson is a small story that depicts Kalidasa's intellectual brilliance at making the best of even the most common occurrences. His poetic excellence is one of best in literature and this story brings out the same. Kalidasa is told to have stayed in either king Vikramaditya's or king Bhoja's court, due to absence of solid facts. But he is acclaimed as one of the Navarathnas or nine gems in the court - Dhanvanthari, Kshapanaka, Amarasimha, Shanku, Vethalabhatta, Ghatakarpara (or Harisena), Kalidasa, Varahamihira. More details here: https://www.gktoday.in/topic/9-gems-navratnas-of-chandragupta-vikramaditya/ A Shloka with the names of the Navarathnas is as follows: धन्वन्तरि-क्षपणिकामरसिंह-शङ्कु-वेतालभट्ट-घटकर्पर-कालिदासाः । ख्यातो वराहमिहिरो नृपतेः सभायां रत्नानि वै वररुचिः नव विक्रमस्य ।।