...only Shakespeare. Goethe has rightly paid the following glowing tribute to Kalidas: Wouldest thought the earth and heaven Itself in one sole name combine I name thee, O Shakuntala, and all at once is said. When Kalidas laid his pen the best in Sanskrit literature had...

...drama or the stage-play, and compared Kalidasa to the great English poet and dramatist, Shakespeare." "Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits...heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Shakuntala, and all at once is said." It does not really matter that Kalidasa cannot be dated and placed...

...furnished a theme for the great European poet of our age. ' \Vouldst thou,' says Goethe, ' Wouklst thou the young year's blossoms, and the fruits of...heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Sakuntala ! and all at once is said.' Other Sakuntala has had the good fortune to be translated by...

...spoke about Shakuntala in the same vein. He said: Would'st thou the young year's blossoms and the fruit of its decline And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed, Would'st thou Earth and Heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee Shakuntala! and all at once is said....