Hunting in a forest, King Dushyanta comes upon the hermitage where Sakoontala, daughter of a nymph, lives among her friends and pet deer. They marry in secret, and he leaves her his ring, but a sage’s curse makes him forget her until the ring is found again. Monier-Williams’s translation renders the prose and verse of the Sanskrit original.
The most celebrated drama of classical India, which so moved Goethe on its first appearance in Europe. Download the free EPUB.