An Ecocritical reading of Kalidasa's Rtusamhara

Abstract

Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and environment, it's included everything related to the human and nonhuman elements i.e. earth, water and sky houses, agriculture, caves, hills, plants, trees, oceans, seasons, animals, wind, ancient architecture, rocks, soil etc, are considered a beautiful gallery of portraits in ecocriticism. This research paper is based on an ecocritical study of Kalidasa's Rtusamhara. Kalidasa (who lived around 5th century AD.) is a representative of nature poet, his literary works are based on beauty of nature and environment. Therefore, this paper attempts to examine Kalidasa's Rtusamharafrom an ecocritical point of view.