Kalidasa Dharwadker Vinay (Tr.)

Kalidasa, perhaps the most extraordinary of Indias classical poets, composed seven major works: three plays, two epic poems and two lyric poems. According to legend, he lived at the end of the fourth century, and was one the nine jewels in the court of the Gupta king Chandragupta II. Although very little is known about his life, Kalidasas popularity has endured for centuries.