Classical Phase of Indian Art - The nine Gems in the court of Vikramaditya

At the time of Vikramadityas reign,in the 7th centuary AD, the glory of Gupta Empire reached its peak. The period of Gupta dynasty is very often referred to as the Golden Age of India. A circle of famous nine persons known as Nine Gems or Navaratnas were present in the court of Vikramaditya.

They are as under:

(i) Dhanvantari (a medical practitioner),

(ii) Kshapanaka  Prominent astrologist who has achieved prominence in astrology..  A Jain monk, author of Dvatrishatikas),

(iii) Amarasimha (author of Amarakosha, a thesaurus of Sanskrit ):
Amarakosha contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class, in metre, to aid the memory. It ia a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the "Tripartite". It is also known as "Namalinganushasana".

(iv) Sanku .An expert in the science of measuring Land

(v) Vetalabhatta (a Maga Brahmin known as the author of the sixteen stanza Niti-pradeepa (the lamp of conduct) in tribute to Vikramaditya),

(vi) Ghatakarpara (author of Ghatakarpara-kavya (in which a wife sends a message, reverse of Meghaduta)), 

(vii) Kalidasa: A renowned classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language.
Kalidasa wrote three plays. They are Malavikagnimitram, Abhijnanasakuntalam and Vikramorvasiyam.
Kalidasa is the author of two epic poems, Raghuvamsa ("Dynasty of Raghu") and Kumarasambhava ("Birth of Kumara").
Among his lyric poems are Meghaduta ("Cloud Messenger") and Rtusamhara ("The Exposition on the Seasons"). 

(viii) Varahamihira also called Varaha or Mihira, was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. His works are Pancha-Siddhantika and Brihat-Samhita.

(ix) Vararuchi (poet and grammarian) There are around ten works connected with astronomy and mathematics associated with the name of Vararuci