| VALMIKI, Vyasa and Kalidasa are the essence of the history
of ancient India; if all else were lost, they would still
be its sole and sufficient cultural history. Their poems
are types and exponents of three periods in the development
of the human soul, types and exponents also of the three great
powers which dispute and clash in the imperfect and half-formed
temperament and harmonise in the formed and perfect. At the
same time their works are pictures at once minute and grandiose
of three moods of our Aryan civilisation, of which the first was
predominatingly moral, the second predominatingly intellectual,
the third predominatingly material.
- Sri Aurobindo
Kalidasa does best in more complicated & grandiose metres where his majesty of sound and subtle power of harmony have most opportunity; his treatment of the Anustubh is massive & noble, but compares unfavourably with the inexhaustible flexibility of Valmekie and the nervous ease of Vyasa.
- Sri Aurobindo
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