The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.184

c5.184

The Jaina poet, Ravikīrti, flourished, being contemporary with Pulikeśin II, Early Chālukya. He was the composer of Pulikeśin's Aihole Meguti inscription in which he claims equality with the poets Kālidāsa and Bhāravi, thus incidentally proved to have flourished before this time. No definite date can as yet be fixed for Kālidāsa, but, according to Kielhorn, he cannot be placed later than A.D. 472, the date of Kumāragupta's Mandasor inscription, a verse of which so closely resembles a passage in Kālidāsa's Ritusamhāra as to justify the inference that this work was in existence when the inscription was incised. Similarly, the Bodh-Gayā inscription of Mahānāman contains a passage closely resembling one in the Raghuvamśa.—BD. 59. VOJ. iii, 121 ff. IA. xix, 285; xx, 190. JBRAS. xix, 35. Bühler, Die indischen Inschriften, p. 71.