Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c13.25

c13.25

¹ On the time and place of Kâlidâsa, there has grown up a voluminous literature in European and, latterly, in Indian languages. But the question of his age, as Macdonell observes, “is not likely to be definitely solved till the language, the style, and the poetical technique of each of his works have been minutely investigated, in comparison with datable epigraphic documents, as well as with the rules given by the oldest Sanskrit treatises on poetics.” Sanskrit Literature, 325. On the subject see Macdonell, Sanskrit Literature, 323—325; Keith, Sanskrit Drama, 143—147, and Classical Sanskrit Literature, 31-32, also J. R. A. S., 1901, p. 578, ff. Hoernle, J. R. A. S., p. 89, ff. Pâthak, J. B. B. R. A. S., XIX, p. 39, ff. K. G. Shankar, Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol. VIII, 278—292; Vol. IX, 17—56; Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute, Vol. II, 189—191; the Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. I, 309—316. In the last paper, the writer alters his opinion and argues for the first century B.C. K. Chattopâdhyâya, The Date of Kâlidâsa, in the Allahabad University Studies, Vol. II, 1926, pp. 79—170, fargues for the 1st century B.C., and *inter alia* aims at proving that Aśvaghoṣa modelled himself on Kâlidâsa and not *vice versa*.