The present edition of the Kumarasambhavam (V Canto) of Kalidasa is prepared for students who find a great difficulty for their study in the absence of a suitable text-book. It embodies all important information about the great poet Kalidasa, his life, date and works as well as his poetic art in the Introductioni which is comprehensive and critical. It also contains the Sanskrit text with translationis both in English and Hinddi and Notes. The translation both in English and Hindi is so rendered as to explain the text easilty. A Bibliography, some appendices and some suktis about the great poet given at the end of the work will be very much useful to the students of Kalidasa.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rabindra Kumar Panda
Dr. Rabindra Kumar Panda (b. 1963) Nyayacarya, Visistacarya, Ph.D., is currently working as Lecturerr in Sanskrit in the Department of Sanskrit , Pali and Prakrit, Faculty of Arts, M.S. University of Baroda, Gujarat. His publicatioins include: Anandabodha yati: Life and Philosophy, Pratidhvani, Vanavalli, Suvrttatilaka, Urvee and Some Aspects of Logical Grammar. As a noted poet of modern Sanskrit literature he is awarded with the prestigious prize by Uttara Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan, Lucknow for his poetry-collection Pratidhvai in 1997. His specialized fields are: Navya-Nyaya, Vedanta, Alamkarasastra and Modern Sanskrit Literature. His project Critical Edition of Sabdanimaya of Prak satman with the commentary, Nyayadipika of Ananadabodhacarya is an important contribution to the field of Indian Philosophy.
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