( 6 ) cuity. An unaffected simplicity of expression and an easy flowing language mark all, his writings which are embellished with similes unparalleled for their exquisite beauty, appropriateness and proverbial sayings generally of a didactic and moral nature. His diction is free from the long compounds, involved constructions, over-wrought rhetoric and artificial character which characterised the -style of later writers. Kalidasa surpasses other poets in his description of the Sublime and the beautiful. The simple and chaste style of his writings stands in direct contrast with those of later poets like Bhavabhuti and Bûna. Kalidasa is essentially a poet of Nature, He des- cribes vividly and with effective Nature touches the gorgeous scenery of Painting the snow-clad and mineral-covered summits, the peaks where Sun-shine ever reigns, the musk-deer and Chamar deer, the powerful herbs shedding luster at night,the Mânasa Lake &c. &c., thus displaying his wonderful powers of describing nature. His description of the ocean, of the several rivers, places, hermitages &c which Rama had to cross on his return from Lanka to Ayodhya, bears us out in our estimate of Kalidasa as a great painter of Nature. While the lamenta- tions of King Aja in the VIII.th Canto of Raghu- vamsha and those of Rati in the IV.th Canto of Kumara-Sambhava, characterise him as a great interpreter of human nature. It is impossible in this small volume to do justice to the gifted talents of Kalidasa in this branch.
