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(8) are referred to the learned essay written by my esteemed friend Sardar Abasaheb Muzumdar on this subject read by him before the first Orienta Conference. Every student of Kalidasa knows that he was a: worshipper of Shiva. All his dramas Religion & open with a prayer to Shiva. But in Philosophy his works such as Raghuvamsha of Kalidasa ( Canto 10 ) and Kumar-Sambhava ( Canto 2) prayers are offered lo Brahma and Vishnu too, which would be acceptable to the followers of any sect among the Hindus. Thus the Shaivism of Kalidas was of a non-sectari... an character, which though it regarded Shiva as the highest Deity, yet had room for worship of other gods and goddesses in Kashmir. Pandit Lachmidhar Kalla saysin his DelhiUniversity Lectures that in the description of vari-ous schools of Shaivism given by Madhavacharya in his Sarva-Darshana-Sangraha, he describes- "Pratyabhijna Darshana" or "recognition system" which corresponds to the type of Shaivism repre- sented by Kalidasa and which was essentially monistic in its character. A brief summary of the system of Pratyabhijna Philosophy is given in appendix A, in the words of Prof. Kalla. Whatever the merits of the Pratyabhijna Philo- sophy, which, according to Prof. Kalla, stands for the good of mankind, irrespective of caste, creed, colour or sex, one thing is certain that the dominant features of all the dramas of Kalidasa consist in the initial divine curse by some sage like Durvasas: followed by separation; this separation again ls