Kalidasa has not written anything about himself. From his works, however, we gather that he had travelled extensively and was intimately knowledgeable about the culture and characteristics of the places described by him. Scholars have reasoned bariously in support of Dhara, Ujjain, Bengal or Vidarbha as Kalidasa;s likely place of birth. Pandit Lachmi Dhar Kalla reasons in details to hold that Mayagram (modern Manigrama) in the Sindh valley of northern Kashmir, ...
