Kalidasa's Meghaduta 1
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Description: Kalidasa's Meghaduta: undertaking a translation. An examination of parts of some translations, and the differences between them.
Kalidasa's Meghaduta: Part 1 Examining previous translations. 2. Assessing the task: Sanskrit poetry. 3. Making a word-for-word translation. 4. Constructing a suitable stanza form. The Meghaduta or Cloud Messenger is one of the masterpieces of Indian, indeed world literature. {1} Its 120-odd stanzas, each of four unrhymed lines, were written in the Mandakrata {2} metre at some time between 100 BC and 500 AD. {3} The Mandakrata is a long metre, moving slowly like the python, with a form as follows: {4} {5}
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