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# Bhojaprabandha 80\_228

English (machine translation) 80\_228

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### [80\_228](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.bhojaprabandha~en-mt.80_228)

He gave the entire earth, filled with gold, to the poets—he who understands the divine composition of good poetry and the sequence of the poets.  
Only a true poet knows the verbal fortune of a good poet, not another; a barren woman does not know another's wealth of pregnancy cravings (the good fortune of holding a child in the womb).  
Thereafter, gradually, affection arose between Bhoja and Kālidāsa.  
4. Kālidāsa praised Bhoja.

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