Sakuntala: Shakuntala Was The Daughter Of Sage Vishwamitra And Menaka

Sakuntala: Shakuntala Was The Daughter Of Most Powerful Rishi Vishwamitra And Menaka

Sakuntala Shakuntala is the mother of Emperor Bharata and the wife of Dushyanta (Sanskrit: akuntal; Tibetan: ). Her story is told in the Adi Parva, the first of the Mahabharata’s eighteen sections, and has been dramatized by a number of authors. The most well-known example is Kalidasa’s play Abhijnakuntala (The Sign of Shakuntala), which is […]