Meghadūta

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Meghadūta (Bengali: মেঘদূত, Telugu: మేఘదూత, Sanskrit: मेघदूतम्, literally Cloud Messenger) is a lyric poem written by Kālidāsa (c. 4th–5th century CE), considered to be one of the greatest classical Sanskrit poets. It describes how a yakṣa (or nature spirit), who had been banished by his master to a remote region for a year, asked a cloud to take a message of love to his wife. The poem became well-known in Bengali literature and inspired other poets to write similar poems (known as "messenger-poems", or Sandesha Kavya) on similar themes. A Telugu poet, Korada Ramachandra Sastri wrote Ghanavrttam in Sanskrit, a sequel to Meghaduta.

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