A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s6.83

v3.c35.s6.83

“No poet, save Kumāradāsa, could dare sing the rape of Sītā when the Raghuvamśa was current, even as none, but Rāvaṇa, could perform the deed, when Raghu’s line existed”². Whoever might have been this Kumāradāsa, he, in any case, had imitated Kālidāsa³, without being able to attain his standard even remotely. He is much less referred to than Bhāravi and Māgha, and his style is most analagous to that of Kālidāsa.