"KAVI PUTRA" OF KALIDASA - A Critical Review

In the Prologue to his play Malavikagnimitram Kalidasa has referred to his illustrious forerunners in the line - 'Prathitayasasam Bhasa-Kaviputra-Saumillakadinam prabandhanatikramya varttamanaKaveh Kalidasasya kriyayam katham parisado bahumanah'.

Transcribed from the prepared edition. This is the beginning of the article, not a summary — open the PDF to read it in full.

शर्मा मालविकाग्निमित्र की प्रस्तावना के उस समास की पुनःपरीक्षा करते हैं जिसमें कालिदास ने अपने पूर्ववर्तियों के नाम लिये हैं। वे मुद्रित संस्करणों के भिन्न क्रम दिखाते हैं, समास के कई विग्रह करते हैं और पूछते हैं कि कविपुत्र स्वतन्त्र कवि है, भास का पुत्र है, अथवा सौमिल्ल का। Sharma re-examines the compound in the prologue to the Mālavikāgnimitra naming Kālidāsa's predecessors. He sets out the variant orders in printed editions, dissolves the compound several ways, and asks whether Kaviputra is a poet in his own right, a son of Bhāsa, or a son of Saumilla.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.