lareeete 
dal 
Vol. IV, No. 6.] The Age of Kalidasu. 341 
[N.S.] 
popular so that Asvaghosha deems it necessary to add gf 
tions to facilitate the study, (3) people's taste is changing a 
pir ited is replacing the natural poetry as seen in the Writings 
dlidasa. At least a century may be allowed to bring about 
pies changes. Hence, if Asvaghosha lived late in the Ist century 
A.D., ae may be placed early in the Ist century B.C. 
fa urprised to find that Prof. Cowell places Asvaghosha 
before Kalidasa. In the preface to his edition of the Bu ruse 
charita, referring to Slokas 5—12, Raghu VI, he says: “TI ca 
hardly doubt that Kalidasa’s finished picture was suggested ~e 
the rough, but vigorous outlines in Asvaghosha . One verse 
certainly i in Asvaghosha seems to me to have been directly taken 
and amplified by Kalidasa.’ 
Those who have followed me thus far will see the injustice of 
this charge. The physical impossibility of the suggestion did not 
strike Prof, Cowell, because he was labouring under the delusion 
of the now exploded 6th-century theory. 
e scholarship and erudition of the learned professor, how- 
ever, demand an independent examination of the question. 
The description in Raghu runs thus :— 
caw AAT Stee WAAC | 
anata qegeelai aaraaratte f8tearfa a4 
SAHA SES ATT RahscsTraAATS! | 
aay a aarfaa Ua ataq Wea agtshy w HMI 1st 
peifeamtaaanuicatag aifag quay | 
Sqestiaafaar aaraeaMAA Ft yeat Tata | 9 
fasted <fquagaa wane aefeaatatat | 
qua qataqafqae sat MARTA AEA YS 
setae feagteea ventas + va Tat 
afuoeCaTHD Bet TAIT TT: FE | 
wulfact aacafear: ut u2 cfafaa aaa | 
SeUCSe te A cLAT ETN E TT need 
ata wt TATRA: APAFTS AATF {| 
| sells Fills BSSTSHTM ETAT HAY | 
at tied gfetrartuaeet aren 4 saqfeearceriar | 
suite Refmacfarrei aafart aafea oiaet y (zt 

