SHAKUNTALA

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Kalidasa’s “Abhijnanashakuntalam’’ is considered to be the greatest Indian literary work of all time. Taken from the Indian Epic Mahabharatha, this literary piece tells of the eternal love of Shakuntala with nature and his inhabitants. She falls in love with King Dushyanta who rejected her in delusion and subsequently reunited with her in heaven. Kalidasa remakes the story into a love idyll whose characters represent a pristine aristocratic ideal: the girl, sentimental, selfless, alive to little but the delicacies of nature, and the king, first servant of the dharma (religious and social law and duties), protector of the social order, resolute hero, yet tender and suffering agonies over his lost love. The plot and characters are made believable by a change Kalidasa introduces: Dushyanta is not responsible for the lovers’ separation; he acts only under a delusion caused by a sage’s curse. As in all of Kalidasa’s works, the beauty of nature is depicted with an inimitable elegance of metaphor.

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