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"This
is your son. Consecrate him as Young King!
For he is
the godlike son you have begotten on me."
The following books will introduce you to Shakuntala, who said
these words in The Mahabharata (see below).
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- The
Mahabharata: Vol. 1. The Book of the Beginning (J. A.
B. van Buitenen, Trans.). University of Chicago Press,
1980.
- Shakuntala's story of clandestine love,
rejection, and eventual triumph occurs early in
the Mahabharata, since she is the
ancestral mother of the Bharata clan whose
struggles are the subject of this, one of the two
great epics of India. It is known in the West
chiefly through the Bhagavad Gita, the
magnificent dialogue between the hero Arjuna and his friend and
charioteer, Lord Krishna. Read about Shakuntala
and you will want to experience the Mahabharata's
entire panorama of love, war, and spiritual
transcendence.
- Great
Sanskrit Plays, in Modern Translation (P. Lal, Ed.).
Norton, 1957.
- Includes Shakuntala, the masterpiece of
Kalidasa, who is known as the "Shakespeare
of India."
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