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Mālavikāgnimitram

KālidāsaOriginal title मालविकाग्निमित्रम्

The Mālavikāgnimitram is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. It is his first play.

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“If a professor thinks what matters most
Is to have gained an academic post
Where he can earn a livelihood, and then
Neglect research, let controversy rest,
He's but a petty tradesman at the best,
Selling retail the work of other men.”

Kālidāsa Mālavikāgnimitram

Mālavikāgnimitram, i.17. In Poems from the Sanskrit, trans. John Brough (London: Penguin, 1968), no. 165; as reported in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay (Bristol: IOP Publishing, 1991), p. 136.

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