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==Content==
The ''Kusumamala'' contains 62 poems on various subjects, including love, nature, social conditions, and historical places and events. The poems are written in various metres as well as in traditional and folk melodies and rhythms. The collection includes short and long poems, with some having nearly one hundred lines. The shortest poem is ''"Mangalacharan''" ("The Auspicious Stanza"), which consists of just four lines, while the longest poem is ''"Chanda''" ("The Moon"), consisting of 112 lines which are divided into 28 stanzas of four lines each. Some other long poems are ''"Asthir Ane Sthir Prem''" ("Unsteady and Steady Love") (68 lines), ''"Vidhvano Vilap''" ("The Lamentation of the Widow") (96 lines), and ''"Megh''", a translation of ''"[[The Cloud (poem)|The Cloud]]''" by English poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (92 lines).<ref name=Choudhuri2016/>
 
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