346 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1908.] 
RECAPITULATION. 
A’ ee with asummary of the results. I[ have tried to 
establish 
(1) That neither Prof. Max Miller nor Prof. Macdonell has 
given good reasons to disbelieve the tradition assigning 
57 B.C. to Kalidasa. 
(2) That from “the way Kalidasa speaks of the Persian Navy 
it is not likely that he came after Christ. 
(3) That from the absence of artificiality in his style he ap- 
pears to beolderthan the Girnar and Nasik inserip- 
of the 2nd centur 
(4) and (5) That from the history of Serta words, Sanskrit 
Panini’s grammar, and to belong to the post-Paninean 
period of transition from Vedic to Sanskrit literature 
to 100 B.C 
(6) That from a 
royalty, in ie ikentslan the s 
flourished soon a ka. This, too, points to the 
period C, 
(7) That from considerations of style, taste, etc., our poe 
a seems to have been older than Asvaghosha, the Bud. 
dhist poet of the first century A.D. 
CoNCLUSION, 
It will not therefore be unreasonable to place pig len mid- 
way between Asvaghosha e A.D.) and Asoka (227 B.C.), i.e., 
early in the first century B. 
This represents him as a young man in the full vigour of his 
giant intellect at 57 B.C., and confirms the tradition still current 
PR ON NN et 

