Wilson believes Kalidasa to have been one of those “nine gems” which adorned King Vikramaditya’s court when Vikramaditya reigned at Ujjayini in Central India this warlike Vikramaditya who defeated the hordes of Scythians, and inaugurated the glorious Vikram era. His name along with Bharavi’s name is mentioned in a stone inscription dated 634 CE found at Alhole located in present day Karnataka. during the period of another Vikramaditya of Ujjain but now it is generally accepted that Kalidasa’s period falls between 5th and 6th century CE. It was also argued that Kalidasa lived in first century B.C. But the question arose which king, as most of the kings were titled Vikramaditya like Chandragupta II and Skandagupta. The period of Kalidasa was linked and was supposed to be linked to the reign of one Vikramaditya. Kalidasa was acclaimed as ‘Indian Shakespeare’ who penned his masterpieces of plays, poems, epics, etc in Sanskrit, writes MEERA S.
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