Role of Child Characters in the Plays of Kālidāsa

All the heroes, heroines and minor characters portrayed by Kālidāsa are impressive and the same can be said about his child characters. Though there is very little information about Kālidāsa’s personal life yet it seems that he has drawn the child characters from his personalexperiences . He has portrayed the child with heartfelt genuine child affection and like an affectionate father the poet also feels unending happiness by touching a child . So, we curiously notice that the love between the hero and the heroine in each plays of Kālidāsa becomes fruitful when a baby was born to them. His immortal child characters areSarvadamanainAbhijn͂ānaśkuntala, Ayu in Vikramorvaśī, Raghu inRaghuvaṅsa and Kumar in Kumārsambhava etc.