as Kalidasa describės that his hero Raghu conquered them, gives & plenty of assurance to ascribe sixth century A. D. as Kalidasa's date:
First Century B. C.;
There are other scholars who believe that Kalidasa lived during (about) 1st Cent. B. C.
(1) Dr. Peterson says "Kalidasa stands near the beginning of the Christian era, if indeed he does not overtop it."
(2) Hippolyte thinks that Kalidasa was contemporary of अग्निवर्ण (described in 15th Canto of Raghu) and lived during( about) 8th century B. C.
(3) Sir William Jones places him in the I Cent. B. C.
(4) The tradition that Kalidasa was patronised by Epoch- making Vikramaditya, shows that he lived 56 years before Christ as the Samvat Era shows.
(5) Merutungacharya's Pathavali shows that Vikrama reigned 134 years before शाक Era.
(6) Rev. S. Beal says that a Chinese traveller carried to China in 67 B. C. copies of Buddha Charita of Ashwaghosh whose style resembles that of Kalidasa, and therefore clearly ascribes to Kalidasa,the period 40 B. C. as his date:
(7) ज्योतिर्विदाभरण describes Vikrama's victory over रूमदेशाधिपति. This book is attributed to Kalidasa and रूमदेशाधिपतिis Cæsar,(the king of Rome), belonging to 55 B. C.
(8) Kalidasa's style shows that he lived many centuries before Baņa Bhatta.
(9) Mr. Pandit observes that पुष्पमित्र founded the Maurya dynasty in 160 B. C. and his son अग्निमित्र, the hero of मालविकाग्निमित्रं, was Kalidas's contemporary. This view is rendered more conspicuous by dissensions by later authors.
(10) The astronomical data cannot prevent us from assigning I Century B. C, to Kalidasa.
(11) Mr. Apte, the ablest exponent of this theory, proves that Huna kings came to India in I Cent. B, C.,& minutely examines the history of Kalingas and arrives at decision that the Ist Century B.C. to be the date of Kalidasa. He further examines the law of inheritance, in the times of Kalidasa, according to which, the property of the deceased did not go to his wife, if he had no male issue but to the king (Shak.). He further deduces that Kalidasa having alluded to Parsikas as Parsis provides sufficient evidence to believe Kalidas's date somewhere in Ist century B.C.
वि.प्र. ७
