Kāvya — Classical Literature
काव्य
Belletristic literature — read as literature, not as liturgy or instruction. The classical classification has no slot for it, which is precisely why it needs one: without this shelf, Kālidāsa and the Pañcatantra have nowhere to go.
The great court epics — the most demanding form in Sanskrit poetics.
Sanskrit drama.
Fable, frame-narrative and story literature.
Lyric and the shorter poem.
Classical literature in the regional languages — the five great Tamil epics among them.