the name of the daughter of Menaka and Vishvamitra, wife of Dushyanta, and mother of Bharata
(H2) [Printed book page 1046,3]
शकुन्त (śakunta)ला (śakuntalā) f. (said to be fr. शकुन्त (śakunta)) N. of a daughter of the Apsaras Menakā by Viśvāmitra (she was supposed to have been born and left in a forest, where she was protected by birds till found by the sage Kaṇva, who took her to his hermitage and reared her as his daughter; she was there seen by king Duṣyanta, when on a hunting expedition, and married by him, and became the mother of Bharata, sovereign of all India; the story of Duṣyanta's accidental meeting with Śakuntalā, their marriage, separation, his repudiation of her through temporary loss of memory caused by a curse, his subsequent recognition of her by means of a ring which was lost but afterwards recovered, forms the subject of Kālidāsa's celebrated drama called Abhijñāna-śakuntalā q.v.). [ID=211383]
शकुन्त (śakunta)ला (śakuntalā) f. (said to be fr. शकुन्त (śakunta)) N. of a daughter of the Apsaras Menakā by Viśvāmitra (she was supposed to have been born and left in a forest, where she was protected by birds till found by the sage Kaṇva, who took her to his hermitage and reared her as his daughter; she was there seen by king Duṣyanta, when on a hunting expedition, and married by him, and became the mother of Bharata, sovereign of all India; the story of Duṣyanta's accidental meeting with Śakuntalā, their marriage, separation, his repudiation of her through temporary loss of memory caused by a curse, his subsequent recognition of her by means of a ring which was lost but afterwards recovered, forms the subject of Kālidāsa's celebrated drama called Abhijñāna-śakuntalā q.v.). [ID=211383]
— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)
