An ancient king, husband of Shakuntala and father of Bharata.
दुष्यन्त (duṣyanta) [Printed book page 280-2] Duṣyanta1, an ancient king, the husband of Śakuntalā
and the father of Bharata. § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 371
(C. Duṣmantāt).—§ 133: The founder of the Paurava line
was D., who ruled the whole world, even the Mlecchas.
Description of his happy rule. D. could take up the mountain
Mandara and support it in his arms (I, 68). One day D.
went a hunting (I, 69). Having come to a forest, which was
situated near the river Mālinī and was the resort of ascetics,
Cāraṇas, Gandharvas, Apsarases, monkeys, Vālakhilyas, etc.
(I, 70), D., in the hermitage of the Ṛṣi Kaṇva Kāśyapa,
saw Kaṇva's adopted daughter Śakuntalā: I, 68, 2801
(Pauravānāṃ vaṃśakaraḥ); 69, 2815, 2833, 2834; 71,
2898, 2909.—§ 134 (Viśvāmitra): I, 71, (2910).—§ 135
(Śakuntalop.): I, 73, (2955), (2960), 2970, 2981, 2985,
2987; 74, 3001, 3023, (3060), 3070, 3100, 3101, 3102,
3104, 3113, 3117 (rājarṣiḥ; D. wedded Śakuntalā according
to the Gāndharva form of marriage and returned to his
capital. Śakuntalā brought her son Bharata to D., who
did not at first acknowledge him as his son, until a celestial
voice corroborated the truth of Śakuntalā's words).—§ 150
(Pūruvaṃś.): I, 94, 3707 (son of Īlina), 3708, 3709 (father
of Bharata).—§ 156 (do.): I, 95, ††3781 (son of Īlina),
††3782 (married to Śakuntalā), 3783 (father of Bharata).—
§ 267 (Yamasabhāv.): II, 8, 326 (in the palace of Yama).—
§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 117, 3974 (reme…yathā…
Śakuntalāyāṃ D°ḥ, C. Duṣv°).—§ 761 (Ānuśāsanik.): XIII,
115δ, 5666 (among the kings who did not eat meat during
the month of Kārttika; C. has Duṣmantaḥ).—§ 775 (do.):
XIII, 166η, 7676.
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