This passage is from the poem Meghaduta by Kalidasa. Yaksha, the nature spirit, is asking the cloud to send a message to his wife. How can a cloud so moving, mixed and got
of water vapour, fire and wind be used
by Yaksha appropriately as messenger?
But he in eagerness and grief confused
mistakes as sentient a thing that's not.

Such clouds the ending of the world presage;
you minister to form at will. Though kin
I plead for are by power detained, better
to be by majesty refused than win
an approbation of base parentage.

I ask you, shelter from the sun's fierce glare,
as one apart, beneath Kubēra's sanctions,
to bear this message to a loved one waiting
in Alakā, where Shiva on those mansions
sheds gardens’ moonlight from his forehead there.

–Meghaduta,
Kalidasa (translated by Colin John Holcombe)

What does the passage suggest about topics important to early Indian culture? Choose three answers.

the importance of love and hope
the sadness of being away from a loved one
the power of jealousy
the struggle for power and wealth
the need to connect with loved ones