The Plays of Kalidasa

by Barbara Stoller Miller, Ed. and Edwin Gerow

In this fine volume Miller and her co-translators David Gitomer and Edwin Gerow have succeeded not only in evoking for us the contexts and spirit of Kalidasa`s dramatic art but also in providing Indologists and the general public with excellent, contemporary translations of all three plays of the eminent sanskrit poet.........the editor and co-translators deserve congratulations and gratitude for their achievement in providing us with Kalidasa translations that are enjoyable as well as accurate and convey in great measure the power and beauty of the works in the original. Barbara Stoler Miller was professor of Oriental Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She was the author of several books published by Columbia Press, including Love Song of the Dark Lord and The Hermit and the Love-Thief.Edwin Gerow is Frank L. Sulzberger Professor in the college and Professor of sanskrit at the University of Chicago. His published works include A Glossary of Indian Figures of Speech, Indian Poetics and numerous articles on sanskrit literature. "The translated texts are so exquisitely elegant and perfect that any non-Sanskritist with an Indian orientation can easily capture the rapturous muse and transport himself into the art world of the poet." --SVU ORIENTAL JOURNAL "The word is in need of popular and lucid translations like the present one." THE ADYAR LIBRARY BULLETIN " The translated texts are so exquisitely elegant and perfect that any non-Sanskritist with an Indian orientation can easily capture the rapturous muse and transport himself into the art world of the poet." --SVU Oriental Journal "...this work is laudable for maintaining the true flavour and fragrance of the original play of Kalidasa." --Prabuddha Bharata