I always find it somewhat surprising and curious when, looking at the visitor logs, I see that people have arrived here by clicking links at mail.google.com or mail.yahoo.com, or something similar, which I suppose means that someone has emailed them the address to my blog and they clicked through from the email. Lately there have been a lot more of these. How mysterious and flattering, that strangers find something here and think to email it to a friend.
Quite a lot of new traffic seems to be Sanskrit-related, some visitors finding the blog through Sanskrit-related web searches, others following (often mysterious) links directly to Sanskrit-related posts. And tonight I learned that the Clay Sanskrit Library –- the Loeb of Sanskrit, about which I wrote here — has linked to me from their Press page, and they even plug my flash cards! So, thanks, CSL; and welcome, new readers.
Pretty cool.
The CSL newsletter is how I found your blog. I enjoyed your translation of the early Sakuntala story. You are right, the Kalidasa play was a favorite of Goethe’s. The introduction to Faust Pt. I is directly inspired by Kalidasa.