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PREFACE.

At the request of the Cambridge University Press through Mr. Arthur Symons, Editor of the Athenæum, I translated Kalidasa's Sakuntala in London between November, 1907 and January, 1908. The work in the MS. was read with great interest by Mr. Symons, who promised to write an Introduction to it. However, owing to circumstances, it was not published at the time.


For the use of Sanskrit students in our Universities as well as for general readers, I am having it published now. If my humble rendering in poetical prose and verse makes the prince of Indian poets widely appreciated, I shall deem myself amply rewarded.

Kasinath House,
Barnagore, Calcutta.
3rd November, 1914.

ROBY DATTA.

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