TY - BOOK AU - Shivaprasada Dvivedi TI - Ritusamharam T2 - Choukhamba Surabharati Granthamala-282 U1 - 891.21 Sh692 R PY - 2012/// CY - Varanasi PB - Choukhamba Surabharati Prakashan KW - Poetry N1 - Ṛtusaṃhāra often written Ritusamhara, (Devanagari: ऋतुसंहार; ऋतु ṛtu, "season"; संहार saṃhāra, "compilation") is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit by Kalidasa. The poem has six cantos for the six Indian seasons - grīṣma (summer), varṣā (monsoon/rains), śarat (autumn), hemanta (cool), śiśira (winter), and vasanta (spring). It is generally considered to be Kaldiasa's earliest work.The word saṃhāra is used here in the sense of "coming together" or "group".It is often translated as Medley of Seasons or Garland of Seasons, but also mistranslated as "birth and death" of seasons, which arises from the alternate meaning of samhāra as destruction ER -