Kalidasa

American  

[kah-li-dah-suh] / ˌkɑ lɪˈdɑ sə /

Or Kālidāsa

noun

1. flourished 5th century a.d., Hindu dramatist and poet.

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Kalidasa British  

/ ˌkælɪˈdɑːsə /

noun

1. ?5th century _ad , Indian dramatist and poet, noted for his romantic verse drama Sakuntala

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Example Sentences

In the living room of his spare 10th-floor apartment he keeps a few shelves of monsoon books — not only the scientific treatises and histories one might expect, but also a lyric poem by a fifth-century writer, Kalidasa, in which a mythical spirit asks a monsoon cloud to send a message to his love.

From Seattle Times

As Forster describes it in “Abinger Harvest,” he took a small dip in Kalidasa’s favorite river, Shipra.

From New York Times

In one way or another, we should be able to accommodate “Hamlet” and the sonnets, Goethe’s “Faust” and the fifth-century Sanskrit poet and playwright Kalidasa’s “Meghaduta.”

From New York Times

The memory of Kalidasa’s writings led E. M. Forster to a long train journey to the ruins of Ujjain, the town in which Kalidasa lived.

From New York Times

Consider the Sanskrit court poet Kalidasa, in whose verses we encounter a river scented with the fragrant ichor of wild elephants.

From New York Times