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Project Gutenberg's Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works, by Kaalidaasa This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Author: Kaalidaasa Translator: Arthur W. Ryder Release Date: September 5, 2005 [EBook #16659] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRANSLATIONS OF SHAKUNTALA *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jayam Subramanian and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS POETRY AND THE DRAMA KALIDASA TRANSLATIONS OF SHAKUNTALA & OTHER WORKS BY ARTHUR W. RYDER THIS IS NO. 629 OF _EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY_. THE PUBLISHERS WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES ARRANGED UNDER THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS: TRAVEL . SCIENCE . FICTION THEOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY HISTORY . CLASSICAL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ESSAYS . ORATORY POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE ROMANCE THE ORDINARY EDITION IS BOUND IN CLOTH WITH GILT DESIGN AND COLOURED TOP. THERE IS ALSO A LIBRARY EDITION IN REINFORCED CLOTH LONDON: J.M. DENT & SONS LTD. NEW YORK: E.P. DUTTON & CO. [Illustration: KALIDASA TRANSLATIONS _of_ SHAKUNTALA AND OTHER WORKS, BY ARTHUR. W. RYDER. UNIVERSITY _of_ CALIFORNIA LONDON & TORONTO PUBLISHED BY J.M. DENT &. SONS LTD & IN NEW YORK BY E.P. DUTTON &. CO] [Illustration: #Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world# Shelley] FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION 1912 REPRINTED 1920, 1928 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN INTRODUCTION KALIDASA--HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS I Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronte
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