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Synopsis

The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa, probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit. The love story of the God and Goddess Shiva and Parvati, who are both lovers and cosmic principles, the poem is a paradigm of the union between male and female played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hank Heifetz, a poet and novelist as well as a Sanskrit scholar, is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Performing and Creative Arts at CUNY, Staten Island and Visiting Lecturer at Yale University.

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