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- Kalidasa was acclaimed as 'Indian Shakespeare' who penned his masterpieces of plays, poems, epics, etc in Sanskrit.
- He was the court poet of Chandragupta Vikramaditya ll.
- Abhijanasakuntalam considered as one of the 100 best literary works in the world.
- A love story of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala whose son Bharatha became a famous ruler.
- Malvikagnimitram - in this he mentions the defeat of a yavana ruler by Vasumitra, the son of Agnimitra on the banks of a river Sind (Kalisind).
- Raghuvamsa - speaks of the all-around victories of Rama, and may indirectly refer to some Gupta conquests.
- Kumarasambhav - deals with the courtship of Shiva and Parvati and the birth of their son's Skanda.
- Meghadutam - lyrical poem containing the message from the lovelorn yaksha to his wife pining across the northern mountains in Alaka.
- Ritusamhara - describes the six seasons in relation to Shringara.
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