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Shakuntala is an Indian television series that premiered on 2 February 2009 and aired until 6 July 2009. The show was based on characters in Hinduism where Shakuntala ( Sanskrit : शकुन्तला, Śakuntalā ) is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata .
Kalidasa's version features much dramatized variant of the tale. One of Kalidasa's additions include the sage Durvasa cursing Shakuntala (pictured) Kalidasa reworked the story of Shakuntala into a dramatic form, introducing additional elements such as a curse and a lost signet ring to create a more complex narrative.
Rukmini, whom he cursed to be separated from her husband, Krishna, because she drank water without seeking Durvasa's permission. [9] Shakuntala, who avoided Durvasa while at the ashrama (hermitage) of sage Kanva, which enraged Durvasa rishi, who cursed her that Dushyanta would forget her. Durvasa later clarified that Dushyanta would remember ...
In her solitude, Shakuntala was absorbed in thoughts of her husband, due to which she failed to offer the appropriate hospitality to the short-tempered sage, Durvasa. Durvasa cursed her, stating that the man she was thinking of to such an extent that he had been neglected would never remember her.
After Shakuntala conceived, Dushyanta promised to take her to his palace and departed. Kanva returned and, perceiving events through divine insight, blessed Shakuntala with a son destined to rule the world. She gave birth to Sarvadamana, whom Kanva raised. At six, he was sent with Shakuntala to Hastinapura. When they arrived, Dushyanta denied ...
La leggenda di Sakùntala is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto based on Kālidāsa's 5th-century-BC drama Shakuntala. [1] It was completed in 1920. [2] When the score was believed lost in wartime bombing, Alfano reconstructed it, in 1945, [3] now titling it simply Sakùntala, but in 2006 a copy of the original was ...
Shakuntala was disapproved of as a text for school and college students in the British Raj in the 19th century, as popular Indian literature was deemed, in the words of Charles Trevelyan, to be "marked with the greatest immorality and impurity", and Indian students were thought by colonial administrators to be insufficiently morally and ...
Dushyant proposes Shakuntala for marriage and they have a gandharva marriage. Having to leave after some time, Dushyant gives Shakuntala a royal ring as a sign of their love, promising her that he will return for her. One day, sage Durvasa visits the hermitage, but Shakuntala, who is too absorbed in her thoughts of Dushyant, forgets to serve ...