The Raghu-vaṉśa or ‘history of Raghu's race,’ in nineteen chapters, by Kālidāsa, on the same subject as the Rāmāyaṇa, viz. the history of Rāma-ćandra, but beginning with a longer account of his ancestors; 2. the Kumāra-sambhava, by Kālidāsa, on the ‘birth of Kumāra’ or Kārttikeya, god of war, son of S'iva and Pārvatī,—originally in sixteen cantos, of which only seven are usually edited, though nine more have been printed in the Pandit at Benares; 3. the Megha-dūta, ‘cloud-messenger,’ also by Kālidāsa—a poem of 116 verses, in the Mandākrāntā metre (well edited by Professor Johnson), describing a message sent by a banished Yaksha to his wife in the Himālayas; a cloud being personified and converted into the messenger; 4. the Kirātārjunīya, ‘battle of the Kirāta and Arjuna,’ by Bhāravi, in eighteen cantos, on a subject taken from the fourth chapter of Mahā-bhārata III, viz. the penance performed by Arjuna, one of the Pāṇḍava princes, and his combat with S'iva disguised as a Kirāta or wild mountaineer (see p. 393); […]