A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.68

v3.c35.s8.68

² The exact title is (*meghadūtaṁ kāvyam*). Commonly the title is given as the Meghadūta, the “Cloud-Messenger”. Editions: by J. Gildemeister (with Latin Glossary), Bonn 1841; with critical notes and vocabulary by A. F. Stenzler, Breslau 1874; with the commentary of Mallinātha by N. B. Godabole and K. P. Paraba, 2nd Ed. Bombay 1886, NSP. The best edition is that of E. Hultzsch with the excellent and oldest commentary of Vallabhadeva and a Sanskrit-English vocabulary, London 1911. Translations:—in English verses by H. H. Wilson, Calcutta 1813, with numerous interesting parallels from Classical and English poetry, that the translator gives in his notes. The second edition (1843) is reprinted as a supplement to the very valuable German prose translation with notes by C. Schutz, Bielefeld 1859. (Wilson's translation has again been published in his works, vol. 4.). Metrical German translations of Max-Müller (Königsberg 1847); of E. Meier, Die Klassischen Dichtungen der Inder, III, 90 ff.; of L. Fritze (Chemnitz 1879), with the help of a manuscript of the prose translation of Stenzler); very much free and abridged by Max Müler in the “Bühne and Welt”, V, 1, 1903, p. 17 ff. French by A. Guerinot, Paris 1902. An anonymous English translation in the Pandit, Vol. II. English prose translations of Jacob, Pathak and Nandargikara have been mentioned by Hultzsch, ibid p. XIV. [With Dakṣiṇāvartanātha's commentary, ed. T. Gaṇapati Śāstri, TSS. 1919; with Pūrṇasarasvati's commentary, ed. K. V. Krisnamacharya, Shrirangam 1909; with the comms. of Mallinātha and Caritravardhana, ed Nārāyaṇa Śāstri Khiste, Vārāṇasī, 1931; Eng. trans. G. J. Somayāji Madras 1934.]