Kalidasa is India’s greatest classical poet and dramatist, and his rendition of the story of Shakuntala is his most famous play. As part of their highly acclaimed ongoing series that seeks to bring the great poet’s oeuvre to a new generation of readers, Penguin Classics offers a new translation of Kalidasa’s work; Abhijnanashakuntalam, The Recognition of Shakuntala. […]
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Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsam translated in English
Penguin presents the enthralling Raghuvamsam by Kalidasa in a beautiful translation. A.N.D. Haksar’s translation of ‘Raghuvamsam: The Line of Raghu’ retells the story of the Ramayana and the ancestry of Rama and its relevance even today. Long considered as Kalidasa’s greatest work, Raghuvamsam is an epic poem in classical Sanskrit. It recounts the legendary tales of the Raghu dynasty, […]