A History of Indian Literature v3.c35.s8.92

v3.c35.s8.92

With regard to the numerous other lyric poems that are attributed to Kālidāsa, it is doubtful whether the name of the great poet is correctly associated with them. Of them the Ṛtusaṃhāra² "Short description of the Seasons", on account of its antiquity, as also on account of its language and poetical perfection may possibly be easily included in the works of the great poet³. In this poem the series of six seasons—the summer, the rains, the autumn, the winter, the time of frost and the spring—are described in splendid colours. These descriptions with their delicate observation of nature, lovely sketches about the happiness of animals and plants and glowing and often luxuriant presentation of amorous pleasures in each of these seasons are probably worthy of Kālidāsa. This conclusion will be confirmed by some probes according to the beautiful translation of P. V. Bohlen:—