Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c70.13

v1.c70.13

*P. 48, fn 1.*—Add Nobel in *ZDMG* lxxiii p. 192 and Winternitz *op. cit.* iii p. 11, fn 1. T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī (introd. to ed. Bhāsa), referring to this passage in Bhāmaha, contends that “Bhāmaha lived much prior to Kālidāsa” who, in his opinion, defends in his *Meghadūta* i 5 the poetic propriety of employing the clouds as messengers. This theory, as well as the conclusion that Bhāmaha’s date is much earlier than Guṇādhya’s, advanced by that scholar, appears to be very doubtful.