A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s6.44

v3.c35.s6.44

¹ The comparison contained in this verse (VI, 67) of Indumatī with the glimmer of a lamp (dīpaśikhā) has pleased the Indian poets so much so that they remember the poet, on account of this simile, as the “**Dīpaśikhā-Kālidāsa**” (see Peterson, OC VI; Leiden 1883, III, 2, 339 ff.),