Critically comment on the use of imagery in the given stanzas of kalidas poem of ritusmhram
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Ṛtusaṃhāra, often written Ritusamhara,[1][2] (Devanagari: ऋतुसंहार; ऋतु ṛtu, "season"; संहार saṃhāra, "compilation") is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit attributed to Kalidasa. The poem has six cantos for the six Indian seasons- grīṣma (summer), varṣā/pāvas (monsoon/rains), śarat (autumn), hemanta (cool), śiśira (winter), and vasanta (spring)[3][circular reference]. It is considered to be Kalidasa's earliest work.
The word Ritu (seasons)with the word saṃhāra is used here in the sense of "coming together" or "group".[4] Thus, Ritusamhara has been translated as Medley of Seasons or Garland of Seasons, perhaps more aptly as the "Pageant of the Seasons",[5] but also mistranslated as "birth and death" of seasons, which arises from the alternate meaning of samhāra as destruction.