part of - Disproportionately detailed and minute phy. sical and natural description of the Hima- layas, especially the Northern Kashmir, and more definitely the Sindh valley in Kashmir, Feeling shown for and patriotic references to Kashmir. Unconscious and spontaneous references to scenes, sites, and legends of Kashmir. Direct allusions to local sites, and usages and social customs peculiar to the natives of Kashmir, ) The description in Meghaduta. Description of living saffron flower peculiar to Kashmir. The religious views of Kalidasa viz: the Kashmir Shaivism known as the Pratya- bhijna Philosophy which has its home in Kashmir and which was not known outside Kashmir during his life time, till after its. popularisation by Somânand in the 9th Centuty A. D. e Poetic genius of Kalidasa has brought Sanskrit Poetry to the highest Poetry, elegance and refinement. His style style & is peculiarly chaste and pure. It has iction. neither the laxity of the Puranas, nor the extravagant colouring of later poems. It is highly unartificial and cterised by brevity consistent with perspi:-
