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Sacred Poetry from Around the World

Yoga / Hindu : Shakta (Goddess-oriented)

4th Century

About Kalidasa

Timeline (350? - 430?)

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English version by
W. S. Merwin & J. Moussaieff Masson

Original Language
Sanskrit

Waking

Themes

Heart

Sound

Recommended Books

	Abhijnanasakuntalam of Kalidasa, by Kalidasa / Translated by Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale
	The Origin of the Young God: Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Translated by Hank Heifetz
	The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts, by Kalidasa / Translated by W. J. Johnson
	Theatre of Memory: The Plays of Kalidasa, by Barbara Stroller Miller / Edwin Gerow

Even the man who is happy
     glimpses something
     or a hair of sound touches him

     and his heart overflows with a longing
          he does not recognize

then it must be that he is remembering
     in a place out of reach
     shapes he has loved

     in a life before this

     the print of them still there in him waiting

-- from East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin

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About Kalidasa

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Sacred Poetry from Around the World