[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Poetry (mahākāvya, lyric, messenger poems, stotra, Prakrit kāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya) › [Messenger poems (sandeśakāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta) › [Meghaduta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta) › 16 # Meghaduta 16 Meghadūta 16 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.16) tvayy āyattaṃ kṛṣiphalam iti bhrūvikārānabhijñaiḥ prītisnigdhair janapadavadhūlocanaiḥ pīyamānaḥ sadyaḥsīrotkaṣaṇasurabhikṣetram āruhya mālaṃ kiṃ cit paścād vraja laghugatir bhūya evottareṇa // > On thee depends the fruitfulness of the soil! With these thoughts, imbibed from the eyes of the country women, who are unacquainted with the play of the eye-brows, and which are moist with affection, ascend, when you have reached the fields of Māla, that smell sweet, having been newly turned up by the plough, a little to the West, with a light movement, and from thence bearing to the Northward. > — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger - [Previous: 15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.15) - [Next: 17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.17) ## Translations (1) - [The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta~en-ouvry.16) — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, English ## Other recensions (2) - [Kashmirian text as read by Vallabhadeva](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*kashmir.16) — Sanskrit - [sPrin gyi pho nya (Tibetan translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*bo.16) — Classical Tibetan ## Linked texts (2) - [Śabdakalpadruma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.kosa.sabdakalpadruma.636.4) — Rājā Sir Rādhākānta Deb, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.38.16) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.16) · Pramāṇa