Which of the following is NOT written by Kalidasa?

Option 3 : Nitisara

The correct answer is Nitisara.

• Nitisara is NOT written by Kalidasa.
• An old Indian treatise on politics and statecraft is called Nitisara or the Nitisara of Kamandaki.
• It was written by Chanakya's student Kamandaka, also known as Kamandaki or Kamandakiya.
• Despite the fact that it is actually a recension based on Sukra Nitisara of the fourth century BCE, current scholarship places its dating between the third and seventh centuries CE, between the Gupta and Harsha periods.
• It is traditionally dated to the fourth and third centuries BCE. There are 19 sections in it.

• Mahakavi Kalidas, who is arguably the greatest Sanskrit virtuoso, wrote Abhigyan Shakuntalam about 2,500 years ago.
• The most renowned Sanskrit poet, Kalidasa, is the author of the epic poem Raghuvaa in Sanskrit.
• The four- or five-act Sanskrit play Vikramrvayam, written by the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa, is based on the Vedic love narrative between King Pururavas and the beautiful Apsar (celestial nymph) rva.

• The finest poet and playwright of classical Sanskrit literature in ancient India is frequently regarded as Klidasa (c. 4th–5th century CE).
• The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabarata, and the Puranas are the main sources for his plays and poems.
• Three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems are all that are left of his writings.