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libri utrum h Kalidasa profecti sint necne, in praesentia quidern 
dijudicare incautum esset; quae equidem legi, mirum in modum frigere 
mihi videbanturbut certainly tbougli some verses in this eighth 
canto are unworthy of Kalidasa, many would do him no discredit. 
In conclusion we may add that there are several allusions to this 
eighth canto in Hindu literature. Thus the Sahitya Darpana 
(Book iii. §. 218), in its account of onana or 1 amantium irce refers 
as its example to Parvatf s displeasure at the description of the even¬ 
ing by S'iva, and his wish to perform the evening rites, and quotes it 
as from the Ivumara-Sambhava. The Das'a Riipa in book iv. §. 12, 
quotes anonymously the lines beginning— 
which are the fifth S'loka of the present edition. But the most im¬ 
portant reference is one in the second book of the Sankshipta Sara, 
which, in its account of namadhatus, gives the following siitra and 
commentary. 
ii ^rf<T I 
This is important as not only quoting a verse of the eighth canto 
(s'l. 3i ; ) but as mentioning the poet’s name. 
E. B. C, 
Since writing the above we have learned that Dr. Bhau Duji is 
printing these cantos of Kalidasa in Bombay. He has succeeded in 
finding Mallinatha’s Commentary to the eighth. 
