Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works. Kalidasa

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СКАЧАТЬ by H.H. Wilson (in his Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, third edition, 1871); of The Dynasty of Raghu, by P. de Lacy Johnstone (1902); of The Birth of The War-god (cantos one to seven), by Ralph T.H. Griffith (second edition, 1879); of The Cloud-Messenger, by H.H. Wilson (1813).

      There is an inexpensive reprint of Jones's Shakuntala and Wilson's Cloud-Messenger in one volume in the Camelot Series.

      KALIDASA

      An ancient heathen poet, loving more

       God's creatures, and His women, and His flowers

       Than we who boast of consecrated powers;

       Still lavishing his unexhausted store

      Of love's deep, simple wisdom, healing o'er

       The world's old sorrows, India's griefs and ours;

       That healing love he found in palace towers,

       On mountain, plain, and dark, sea-belted shore,

      In songs of holy Raghu's kingly line

       Or sweet Shakuntala in pious grove,

       In hearts that met where starry jasmines twine

      Or hearts that from long, lovelorn absence strove

       Together. Still his words of wisdom shine:

       All's well with man, when man and woman love.

      Willst du die Blüte des frühen, die

       Früchte des späteren Jahres,

       Willst du, was reizt und entzückt,

       Willst du, was sättigt und nährt,

       Willst du den Hummel, die erde mit

       Einem Namen begreifen,

       Nenn' ich, Sakuntala, dich, und

       dann ist alles gesagt.

      GOETHE

      FOOTNOTES:

[1]

      These verses are translated on pp. 123, 124.

[2]

      The passage will be found on pp. 190–192.

[3]

      This matter is more fully discussed in the introduction to my translation of The Little Clay Cart (1905).

       [4]

      Lévi, Le Théâtre Indien, p. 163.

       CONTENTS

      SHAKUNTALA

       Table of Contents

      A PLAY IN SEVEN ACTS

      DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

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KING DUSHYANTA.
BHARATA,	nicknamed All-tamer, his son.
MADHAVYA,	a clown, his companion.
His charioteer.
RAIVATAKA,	a door-keeper.
BHADRASENA,	a general.
KARABHAKA,	a servant.
PARVATAYANA,	a chamberlain.
SOMARATA,	a chaplain.
KANVA,	hermit-father.
SHARNGARAVA	}his pupils.
SHARADVATA
HARITA
DURVASAS,	an irascible sage.
The chief of police.
SUCHAKA	} policemen.
JANUKA
A fisherman.
SHAKUNTALA,	foster-child of Kanva.
ANUSUYA	}her friends.
PRIYAMVADA
GAUTAMI,	hermit-mother.
KASHYAPA,	father of the gods.
ADITI,	mother of the gods.