A line from this work concludes each stanza of Jinasena's poetic narrative of the life of Parsvanatha, the 23rd Tirthankara.
A line from this work concludes each stanza of Jinasena's poetic narrative of the life of Parsvanatha, the 23rd Tirthankara. This work inaugurated a new genre utilizing its so-called "slow-stepper" meter, or mandakantra. The "exchange of glances," "wistfulness," and "emaciation" are among  the ten stages of love described in this work's second half. The title entity is apostrophized throughout, described as a "dark nipple on Earth's bosom white" when resting on the Mango Peak. The closing stanzas include a description of the city of Alaka, where the title entity is told to prove its authenticity by telling a woman that she once teasingly accused the speaker of lying with another woman in her dream. The speaker is exiled by Kubera to the Vindhya Mountains in this 111-stanza poem, and must communicate with his wife through the title means. FTP, name this lyric poem written in Sanskrit by Kalidasa.  
A line from this work concludes each stanza of Jinasena's poetic narrative of the life of Parsvanatha, the 23rd Tirthankara.
Meghaduta or The Cloud Messenger