In which of the following works is Chitrakoot referred to as ‘Ramgiri’ ?
Meghdoota
Chitrakoot is called Ramgiri in Kalidasa's Meghdoota, the lyric poem in which an exiled yaksha asks a passing cloud to carry a message to his wife in Alaka.
The very first verse places the yaksha on the slopes of Ramgiri, whose waters are described as hallowed by the bathing of Sita, and that association with Rama's forest exile is what identifies Ramgiri with Chitrakoot. The cloud's route northward from there gives the poem its geography of central India.
The other works do not use the name in this sense. Raghuvamsha and Kumarasambhava are Kalidasa's two epics, on the dynasty of Raghu and on the birth of Kartikeya respectively, and Brihat Ramayana belongs to a different tradition altogether.
Hence, the answer is Meghdoota.
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