Sakuntala

This Sanskrit drama, composed in the fourth or fifth century, follows Shakuntala, a hermitage girl raised by the sage Kanva, and King Dushyanta, who meets her while hunting and marries her in the forest by the gandharva rite. A curse makes the king forget her until a lost ring is recovered; she, pregnant and turned away at court, is taken to another realm. Recognition and the child Bharata restore the marriage. The play moves among hermitage, palace, and heaven, mixing verse with prose. It is a courtly romantic drama, not a chronicle of a historical reign.

Bound in blue-green artificial moiré silk. Pale pink endleaves. Dark blue slipcase.