A History of Sanskrit Literature c16.s1.93

c16.s1.93

‘Loved one, timid in our first joy of love, relax thy clinging grasp and let me go; do not the cocks, fair one, proclaim in unison the advent of ruddy dawn?’ It is characteristic that Haradatta in the *Padamañjarī*, a comment on the *Kāçikā Vṛtti*, gives an entirely different three lines, while Rāyamukuṭa makes Bhāravi the author of the stanza given as Kumāradāsa’s by Kṣemendra. In the curious tale of Kālidāsa’s death² we learn that king Kumāradāsa wrote on the wall of a hetaira’s house the half-verse: