![]() ![]() Vishvamitra could not control his lust and desire and his penance was broken. Menaka reached Vishwamitra's meditating spot and started to seduce him. To end his penance, Indra sent Menaka, an apsara, to lure him and bring him out of his penance. He feared that Vishvamitra might want his throne. The intensity of his penance frightened Indra. Once, Vishvamitra started to meditate to earn the status of a Brahmarshi. This story had been adapted as the play by the 4th-5th century CE poet Kalidasa. The first version is the one described in Mahabharata, one of the two major Hindu epics traditionally attributed to the sage Vyasa. ![]() There are two different stories of Shakuntala's life. ![]() Her story is told in the Adi Parva, the first of eighteen parts of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaptation being Kalidasa's play Abhijñānaśākuntala ( The Sign of Shakuntala). Shakuntala ( Sanskrit: Śakuntalā, Tibetan: བྱ་ལེན་མའི་ཟློ་གར) is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. Priyamvada brings a tray of cosmetics to adorn Shakuntala. ![]()
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