Rasarnavasudhakara 3.326

English (machine translation) 3.326

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3.326

Not everything is good merely because it is old,
nor is a poem to be condemned merely because it is new;
the discerning, having tested, resort to one or the other,
while the fool has an intellect led by the belief of others.

3.326.p1

|| [Mālavikāgnimitra 1.2]

3.326.p2

Here, by the phrase "the discerning, having tested," Kālidāsa intends his own pride founded on the capacity of his work to undergo critical examination; hence his noble character.

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit