WORKS, BY
ARTHUR. W.
RYDER.
UNIVERSITY
_of_ CALIFORNIA

LONDON & TORONTO
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[Illustration: #Poets are the trumpets which sing to battle
poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world# Shelley]


FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION 1912
REPRINTED 1920, 1928

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN




INTRODUCTION

KALIDASA--HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS


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