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forced himself into his presence and made a most profound obeisance. In- 
dignant at the interruption, Dallan ordered him to leave the place, but 
Kalidasa pacified him by a string of far-fetched compliments, and he at 
length condescended to ask the new-comer his business. Kalidasa replied 
that he was a poor poet from the south, who did not know the manners 
and customs of Dhara, and that he wished to be introduced to king Bhoja. 
Dallan asked if he had ever composed anything in Sanskrit. Kalidasa 
replied, ‘“a little,” and that he was prepared to give an example there and 
then. It was as follows :— 
cay sacha sat at 
Ufaar af are ara uaa | 
aul aed <a fora aa T 
ey: faa faa Fix At BART | 
This remarkable composition Kalidasa translated as meaning. “ The 
euckoo sings in the city and in the forest, and a woman keeps pounding 
sandal wood, and says I cannot bear my life. Separated from my beloved 
one, my heart goes pit-a-pat.”” 
To understand this ludicrous mixture of pedantic and ignorant mis- 
takes some explanation is necessary. The following verse occurs in the 
Amarakosha, ‘aatra: ques: aifae: faa <afa,” “the cuckoo is also 
(xmfq) called pika and other names.” Kalidasa, however, represents him- 
self as thinking that the meaning is that hokila, pika and ityapi are all 
synonymous terms. In gaitfa there are three mistakes. K4lidd4sa meant 
to say wUtfa, mistranslating it as “sings.” The verb @ “to make” is 
marked in the Dhdtupdthas as “ saz,” in which ¥ and & are anuban- 
_dhas or indicatory letters, which form no part of the root and only draw 
attention to certain peculiarities of conjugation. Kalidasa, however, repre- 
sents himself as thinking that only S& is an anubandha, and that “ eR” is 
a ready made root of the first class meaning “ to sing.” With regard to 
ufeat, the following verse occurs in the Amarakosha : 
AN ON ~ 
Gea eqacay ware: ATA: | 
ata: HUTA faa Vcqeag 
That is to say, “ Of the following five names of celestial trees, the 
mandara, the parijdtaka, the santéna, and the kalpavriksha are masculine, 
while the harichandana is optionally neuter.’ Kalidasa, however, took 
“punsi va” as being a synonym for “ harichandana” or “yellow sandal- 
wood.” ‘The words ‘‘afa afe ata waa” are Hindi. With regard to aur, 
the “afaat afeat aur’ of the Amarakosha led Kalidasa to represent him- 
