A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s6.32

v3.c35.s6.32

Perhaps some stanzas or probably one canto in which the birth of Kumāra was described briefly and discreetly has been lost. In that case Kālidāsa would have hardly developed the purāṇic myth of the war-god's birth, a most unsuitable theme for poetic representation, as some later hand has done in the certainly spurious cantos IX-XVII. These cantos, not only on account of their contents but also on account of their language, can easily be seen as an interpolation².