History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) - Part 72

History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) - Part 72  

Historical Aspects of Classical Period of Haridwar -Kumaon-Garhwal (Uttarakhand), Himalayas-14   

Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) in Kalidasa Literature- part -12

(This History chapter up is dedicated to great historian Dr Shiv Prasad Dabral, Rahul Sankrityayan, Garhwali poet Sada Nand Jakhmola, Editor of Satyapath, Lalita Prasad Naithani, Dr. Shiva Nand Nautiyal, Kunvar Singh Negi, ‘Karmath’, Srimati Kamla Ratnam, Banarasi Das Chaturvedi , Dr. Mayaram Uniyal  who did sound research on Kalidasa literature and Life)

                                                       By: Bhishma Kukreti

               Kalidasa had been a great personality of Indian history. The works of Kalidasa influenced every regional language literature and Sanskrit literature after Kalidasa. Even today, many Indian poets and dramatists follow Kalidasa this way or that way. However, less is known about the birth place, the life span of great poet Kalidasa.

                                       Time Period of Kalidasa Life

   There are many theories about birth date, life and death date of great Indian poet Kalidasa. Now, there is almost a conscious among historians that Kalidasa flourished between somewhere from 100 -450AD (Raj Pruthi, 2004, Classical Age, page 151).

                     Kalidasa was Brahmin

    There is less known about family of Kalidasa. It is certain that Kalidasa was Shaivya Brahmin. This is also true that the  work place of Kalidasa was Ujjain or Vidarbha.

                            Native place/Birth place of Kalidasa  

                  Before, Sada Nand Jakhmola came in the seen there were many scholars who were proving native place of Kalidasa as per their ease.

              Mirasi was bent to prove that Kalidasa’s native place/birth place was Bengal.

             Professor Kalla was providing non logical proofs of Kashmir being the native place/ birth place of Kalidasa.

             Dr Dabral providing foolproof arguments of Sada Nand Jakhmola proved that Mirasi and Kalla were totaly wrong.

          Anand M Sharan provides non-logical evidences to prove that Mithila was place/birth place of Kalidasa.

                Muralidhar Bhattarai was bent for proving that Nepal was native place/birth place of Kalidasa. His arguments were correct till flora and fauna. But Muralidhar Bhattarai totally misinterpreted the names Mandakini, Malini , Ganga rivers just to support his views. Bhishma Kukreti proved that Muralidhar Bhattarai was wrong in interpreting names of rivers, places just for his satisfaction (merpahadforum.com/religious-places-of-uttarakhand/kaviltha-birth-place-of-kalidas) .

          Scholars as Dr Shiv Prasad Dabral, Rahul Sankrityayan, Garhwali poet Sada Nand Jakhmola, Editor of Satyapath, Lalita Prasad Naithani, Dr. Shiva Nand Nautiyal, Kunvar Singh Negi, ‘Karmath’, Srimati Kamla Ratnam, Banarasi Das Chaturvedi , Dr. Mayaram Uniyal, Bhishma Kukreti proved that Garhwal was the native place /birth place of Kalidasa.   

 Sada Nand Jakhmola proved that Kaviltha is birth place of Kalidasa.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti 14/06/2013

(The History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar write up is aimed for general readers)

History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand) to be continued… Part -73

Historical Aspects of -Classical Period of Haridwar -Kumaon-Garhwal (Uttarakhand), Himalayas to be continued…15 

Major Reference- Dr.Shiv Prasad Dabral, 1968, Uttarakhand ka Itihas part – 3, pages 310-336, Veer Gatha press, Dogadda, Garhwal, India

Notes on history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in Himalaya; history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in Central Himalaya; history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in Uttarakhand Himalaya; history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in Garhwal Himalaya; history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in North Garhwal, Himalaya; history aspects about native place/birth place of Kalidasa in Kaviltha village in Garhwal Himalaya;