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² Cantos I-VII translated into Latin and published by A. F. Stenzler, London 1838. English translation of the same cantos by R. T. H. Griffith (The Birth of the War-God, a Poem by Kālidāsa, 2nd Ed. London 1879). German translation of the Cantos I-VIII in prose by O. Walter, München—Leipzig 1913. Cantos VIII-XVII were published for the first time in the Pandit, Vol. I, 1866. In the same journal was discussed in detail the question of genuineness of these cantos by Indian scholars. (Cf. also Weber, ZDMG 27, 174ff. and Indian refutation) 3, 217 ff. 241ff. There are nice editions of all the 17 cantos with commentaries in NSP, 4th Ed., Bombay 1906; cantos I-VIII, the commentaries of Aruṇagiri and Nārāyaṇa Gaṇpati Śāstrī in TSS, Vol. 27, 32, 36, 1913-14. Following the translation of Griffith in March 1912, was presented in the Court Theatre in London the story of Kumārasaṁbhava in 18 tableaux by Indian ladies and children (As. Quart. Rev N S. 1, 1913, p. 327).