Sanskrit Kavya literature has a long history of its development. The idea of sending of a message, through a messenger, from one person to another is not to be found wanting in the Hindu epics but it was taken up as an independent theme for a poem firstly by Ghatakarpara and later on by Kalidasa, Dhoyi, Udaya, Bhavabhuti and many other poets of note. sandesh kavya also called DutaKavya or message poem Sandesha Kavya (IAST: sandeśa-kāvya) belongs to the category of Khandakavya. Overview In Sanskrit language, sandeśa (संदेश) means "message", and kāvya (काव्य) means "poem" or "poetry". Sandesha kavya deals with the sending of a message through the agency of a messenger (Duta). The idea of sending a message through a messenger (Duta) is old and familiar in literature. Ghatakarpara’s Sandesha Kavya The fore-runner of Sandesha Kavya is a small poem bearing the title - "Poem of the Broken-jug" which is a poem by Ghatakarpara on the message sent to the husband by a wife who was in grief on account of separation; it deals with the lamentation of the abandoned wife who does not address her lamentation to one person alone but to the monsoon clouds, her confidante, her distant husband and some trees but none of them entrusted with the task of carrying her message. The poem is of twenty-four stanzas in five different metres. Even though nothing is known about the poet except his name which stands mentioned at the very end of the poem but he is believed to be contemporary of Kalidasa and one of the Nine Gems in the court of Vikramāditya, though he does not reach the lofty, subtle, romantic height of Kalidasa. Abhinavagupta holds the view that this poem was actually written by Kalidasa, and has written a commentary on it, but the construction etc., of the poem indicates that Kalidasa did not write this poem. Eminent Sandesha kavyas In Kalidasa’s Meghadūta, the messenger is the cloud, in Dohyi’s Pavanadūta, the messenger is the wind, in Udaya’s Mayurasandeśa, the messenger is the peacock. The methodology employed by Kalidāsa in the construction of his Meghadūta, a lyric in a little over one hundred verses that personifies objects of Nature and describes Nature with all its beauties and glories, has been imitated by later Sanskrit poets. Pavanadhuta is written by Dhoyin a 12th century CE court poet the Gauda king Lakshmana of the Sena