A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I c5.4

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¹ See Peterson in *Sbhv*, pp. 60-61. But Stein in his translation of the *Rāja-taraṅgiṇī*, i, pp. 66, 84 f., would place Pravarasena II as late as the second half of the 6th century. The ascription of the *Kauntaleśvara-dautya* to Kālidāsa by Kṣemendra and Bhoja is used to show that Pravarasena, as the Vākāṭaka ruler of Kuntala, was a contemporary of Kālidāsa, but it is only an unfounded conjecture.