Dipasikhagitikavya-Kalasrih : Enjoying Bliss in Kalidasa's Rtusamhara & Meghaduta is a tender presentation by three sisters Prof. Sushma Kulshreshtha, Dr. Sumanlata Shrivastava and Prof. Abha Kulshreshtha to their sister Prof. Usha Satyavrat, a great devotee and lover of Sanskrit Literature & Works of Kalidasa on the auspicious occasion of her 78th birth anniversary on 15th October, 2012. Present volume, the fourth in the series of Erotica Indica presents the first ever novel study of the sixty-four arts in the history of literary criticism and critical works in India and abroad accomplished with reference to the two world-famous lyrical works of Dipasikha Kalidasa, namely Rtusamhara and Meghaduta. The present works is divided into two stabakas :

Stabaka I :   Visayavatarana : Sastric Study

Stabaka II : Sixty-four Arts in Gitikavyas of Kalidasa

Puspa I :     Sixty-four Arts in Rtusamhara

Puspa II :    Sixty-four Arts in Meghaduta

The first stabaka deals with the Sastric and technical analysis of sixty-four arts as propounded by Sage Vatsyayana in his Kamasutra. These arts are considered as the angavidyas or the angabhutakalas of Kama, the art of enjoying love. The second stabaka divided into two puspas presents the detailed appraisal of 35 arts in Rtusamhara and 32 arts in Meghaduta citing numerous beautiful illustrations for the enjoyment of connoisseurs and Sanskrit lovers. In the end are appended Indices and detailed Bibliography.