Excerpt from A Critical Appreciation of Kalidasa's Meghasandesa: A Lecture This criticism of Kalidasa's Meghasana'eea, has been reproduced mainly with the aid of the short hand notes taken down by one of the members of the Sanskrit Association. At the request of the Association, it has been revised and expanded in places, to make the criticism as nearly complete and comprehensive as possible. The Association cannot feel too thankful to its President, Rao Bahadur Professor M. Rangacharya, m.a, for the great kindness with which he delivered the address, and also for the still greater kindness in his havmg so readily undertaken the task of revising and ex panding it. The Sanskrit Association has, with pardonable pride, felt anxious to have it printed, and has got it published in the belief that it Will surely help to make the readers of Kalidasa's Meghasandeea understand and appreciate well its high artistic excellence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.