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Meghaduta (Meghadūtam, "cloud messenger") or Meghdoot is a Sanskrit lyric poem, written by of the fifth century [1] poet Mahākavi Kalidāsa ("the great poet Kalidasa").
The poem is written in mandakrānta poetic meter, which is considered to be "apt for depiction of sentiments of pathos and tenderness".[2]
Background
The first three verses of the poem sum up the background of the poem. The poem is written as a monologue of the central character, a yaksha (yakṣa) (a Hindu demi-god, who is an attendant of the treasurer of gods and king of yakshas - Kubera). The yaksha is cursed by his guru to leave away from his hometown Alaka (the capital of Kubera's kingdom in the Himalayas) and his beloved, for a whole year.