[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) › 5 # Meghaduta 5 Meghadūta 5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.5) dhūmajyotiḥsalilamarutāṃ saṃnipātaḥ kva meghaḥ saṃdeśārthāḥ kva paṭukaraṇaiḥ prāṇibhiḥ prāpaṇīyāḥ ity autsukyād aparigaṇayan guhyakas taṃ yayāce kāmārtā hi prakṛtikṛpaṇāś cetanācetaneṣu // > How can a cloud, a conglomeration of watery air and radiant smoke, carry a message, such as is taken by one with intellectual organs? Not taking this into consideration, on account of his anxiety, the Guhyaka made his request, for those afflicted by love are naturally abject to inanimate as well as to animate nature. > — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger - [Previous: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.4) - [Next: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.6) ## Translations (1) - [The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta~en-ouvry.5) — Henry Aimé Ouvry 1868, English ## Other recensions (2) - [Kashmirian text as read by Vallabhadeva](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*kashmir.5) — Sanskrit - [sPrin gyi pho nya (Tibetan translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta*bo.5) — Classical Tibetan ## Linked texts (5) - [Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa (alaṅkāra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.sarasvatikanthabharana.2.335.1) — Bhoja, Sanskrit - [Meghadūta (Vikrama)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kavya.laghu.meghaduta-vikrama.5) — Vikrama, Sanskrit - [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.38.5) — Sanskrit - [Tarkakaumudī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.nyaya_vaisesika.tarkakaumudi.5.5) — Laugākṣi Bhāskara 1600, Sanskrit - [Śīladūtakāvya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.jaina.siladutakavya.2.5) — Cāritrasundara, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.duta.meghaduta.5) · Pramāṇa