"The present edition of the Meghaduta has been prepared with particular attention to the wants of university students; at the same time, much that is of interest to the general reader has been inserted. The words giving the prose order of each verse in Mallinatha's commentary are printed in the bold "
"Kavya or literary composition according to Sanskrit writers is of two kinds and of these is either pure prose or pure poetry or a mixture of the two. Pure poetry may be either a (like the Raghuvamsa and the Kiratarjuniya or a writers on rhetories have defined a as viz, resembling Mahakavya in some o"