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write a short note on kalidasa's play "vikramorvashiyam".(600 Words)​

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Kalidasa, (flourished 5th century CE, India), Sanskrit poet and dramatist, probably the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. The six works identified as genuine are the dramas Abhijnanashakuntala (“The Recognition of Shakuntala”), Vikramorvashi (“Urvashi Won by Valour”), and Malavikagnimitra (“Malavika and Agnimitra”); the epic poems Raghuvamsha (“Dynasty of Raghu”) and Kumarasambhava (“Birth of the War God”); and the lyric “Meghaduta” (“Cloud Messenger”).

Vikramorvashi is a five-act Sanskrit play by ancient Indian poet Kalidasa who flourished in the 4th Century CE, on the Vedic love story of king Pururavas and an Apsara, a celestial nymph named Urvashi.

As per the tradition, while the basic plot has taken elements from the sources such as the Samvada Sukta of the Rigveda , Mahabharata and others, Kalidasa has made significant adaptations to make the presentation more appealing while establishing his prowess as a playwright.

Vikramorvashiyam is the second of the three plays written by Kalidasa.

According to one theory, "Vikrama" in the title alludes to Kalidasa's patron king Vikramaditya; however, there is no evidence for this. It simply means "Valour".The play contains a well-known “mad scene” (Act IV) in which the king, grief-stricken, wanders through a lovely forest apostrophizing various flowers and trees as though they were his love.

Sanskrit literature, body of writings produced by the Aryan peoples who entered the Indian subcontinent from the northwest, probably during the 2nd millennium BC. It developed as the vehicle of expression for the Brahmanical society that gradually established itself as the main cultural force throughout the region in the period before the Muslim conquest. Beginning c. 1500 BC, with the era of the Vedic hymns, the classical period of Sanskrit drew to a close c. AD 1000. Throughout this period of 2,500 years the dating of most literary works is problematical; the difficulty is aggravated by the tendency to ascribe authorship to well-known or legendary names. Two main periods in the development of the literature are discernible: the Vedic period, approximately 1500–200 BC; and, somewhat overlapping it, the classical period, approximately 500 BC–AD 1000.