Kalidasa who some scholars believe wrote somewhere in the first century AD wrote poems of epic proportions and is regarded as one of the most outstanding writers of classical Sanskrit known to be an ardent worshipper of Lord Shiva, Kalidasa wrote his plays and poems largely based around Hindu mythology and philosophy. The meghadootem (The Cloud Messenger) in many ways the finest of all Kalidasa's work and certainly one of the masterpieces of world literature is however, an original tale.