[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) › 3 # Meghaduta 3 Meghadūta 3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.3) tasya sthitvā katham api puraḥ ketakādhānahetor antarbāṣpaś ciram anucaro rājarājasya dadhyau meghāloke bhavati sukhino 'py anyathāvṛtti cetaḥ kaṇṭhāśleṣapraṇayini jane kiṃ punar dūrasaṃsthe // > Having stood awhile before it, this sweet padanus fructifying cause, with suppressed tears, this servant of the King of Kings fell into a long meditation. “At the view of a Cloud the condition of a happy one becomes changed to a strong emotion; how much more that of a banished man longing to embrace the neck?” > — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta~en-ouvry.3) — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, English ## Other recensions (2) - [Kashmirian text as read by Vallabhadeva](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*kashmir.3) — Sanskrit - [sPrin gyi pho nya (Tibetan translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*bo.3) — Classical Tibetan ## Linked texts (2) - [Meghadūta (Vikrama)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kavya.laghu.meghaduta-vikrama.3) — Vikrama, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.38.3) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.3) · Pramāṇa