Here a few more hints: K. S. Ramaswami Sastri, Kalidasa: His Period, Personality & Poetry, Vani Vilas Press, 1933
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102720/page/n95/mode/2up pp. 83-87, where no source is given for the "traditional"/"apocryphal" (South-Indian) accounts of Kālidāsa's life, the first one corresponding to what is reported in a 17th century Tibetan source referred to by S. Lévi Théâtre I pp. 164-165 https://archive.org/details/lethtreindienvo00lvgoog/page/164/mode/2up which itself corresponds to a Mysorian reported tradition publ. in IA 7, 1878, p. 115-117 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277422/page/n167/mode/2up completed there by a few anecdotical Sanskrit verses related to K. in relation with other (later...) famous poets. The tradition of the navaratnas at the Court of Vikramāditya appears to be attested first in the 12th c. (?) Jyotirvidābharaṇa (ascribed to K.), 22.10 (https://archive.org/details/Jyotirvidabharanam/page/n383/mode/2up), following Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi & Narayan Raghunath Navlekar, Kālidāsa; Date, Life, and Works, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1969 (not seen; pp. 8-29 according https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navaratnas ) Nothing "traditional" to be found in S. C. De, Kālidāsa and Vikramāditya, 1929 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.102719/page/n565/mode/2up There is another traditional (?) verse about K. given by Appaya Dīkṣita en Kuvalayānanda (164) : purā kavīnāṃ gaṇanāprasaṅge kaniṣṭhikādhiṣṭhitakālidāsā । adyāpi tattulyakaver abhāvād anāmikā sārthavatī babhūva || There are earlier biographical traditions about K. such as the one in the lost Kuntaleśvara-dautya (where K. himself would have been the hero sent by Vikramāditya as messenger to the king of Kuntala), ascribed to K. himself by Kṣemendra (in his Aucityavicāracarcā), a same stanza of which is given by Rājaśekhara and twice by Bhoja - see V. Raghavan in B.C. Law Vol. Part II pp. 191-197 https://archive.org/details/b.c.lawvolumepart2ms_310_/page/n101/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.50139/page/n201/mode/1up (better) and thereon also the recent post: https://cestlaviepriya.wordpress.com/2024/05/29/kuntalesvaradautya-a-study/ I have noted on my old xerox of Raghavan's article "+ K. Raja SPAIOL 1972" but I do not remember to which it corresponds... there should also be a few more references in Narang's K. Bibliography, 1976: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.142458/ Bw, Christophe Le 3 avr. 2025 à 16:00, Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit : Dear Harsha, thanks a lot. I'll try to get it. b.w. Adriano Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano Língua e Literatura Sânscrita (DLCV/FFLCH) Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Gabinete 18, fone: 3091-4931 +5511954675747 uatibus hic mos est centum sibi poscere uoces, centum ora et linguas optare in carmina centum. e Persi Flacci satura V. Em qui., 3 de abr. de 2025 às 10:57, Harsha Dehejia <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu: Friends I do not know if my book Nayikas of Kalidasa. DK Publishing. Delhi Will answer all your questions but it will be a good start. Regards Harsha Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Adriano Aprigliano via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2025 7:24:20 PM To: Indology <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Kālidāsa's "biographies" Dear colleagues, Could anyone point me to Sanskrit (or old) passages or works telling stories about Kālidāsa? I assume they must start from the second millennium on -- perhaps they're much more recent, I guess. For example, where does the story of his having been blessed by Kālī fist appears? Thanks and best wishes, Adriano Prof. Dr. Adriano Aprigliano Língua e Literatura Sânscrita (DLCV/FFLCH) Universidade de São Paulo Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 CEP: 05508-900 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo - SP / Brasil [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Gabinete 18, fone: 3091-4931 +5511954675747 uatibus hic mos est centum sibi poscere uoces, centum ora et linguas optare in carmina centum. e Persi Flacci satura V. _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology ––––––––––––––––––– Christophe Vielle<https://www.uclouvain.be/en/people/christophe.vielle> Louvain-la-Neuve
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