Sakuntala

American  

[suh-koon-tuh-lah, shuh-] / səˈkʊn tə lɑ, ʃə- /

noun

1. a Sanskrit drama written in the 6th century or earlier by Kalidasa.

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Example Sentences

"I'm happy and have great respect for our judiciary and Supreme court," Sobhraj's mother-in-law Sakuntala Thapa told Reuters partner ANI after news of his release was announced.

From Reuters • Dec. 23, 2022

Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are told that Rajah Dushyanta, a descendant of the Moon, while hunting one day beheld the beautiful Sakuntala, daughter of a sage, whom he persuaded to consent to a clandestine marriage.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

So far, Bodenstedt had taken the material for his Oriental poems from Persia, but now he turned to India and in 1887 appeared Sakuntala, a romantic epic in five cantos.

From The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Remy, Arthur F. J.

The Siva, for instance, who is invoked at the commencement of the drama of Sakuntala, who is at once God, priest and offering, and whose body is the universe, is a Vedantic idea.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various