Shakuntala And Other Stories From Ancient India

Author : Adithi Rao
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143330394
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakuntala and Other Stories from Ancient India written by Adithi Rao and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six unforgettable stories of love and bravery, treachery and injustice, from ancient Indian literature Classical Sanskrit and Tamil writing teem with a myriad characters, and here we meet some truly memorable ones. This collection of six plays, poems and epics retold for children includes ‘Shakuntala’, a heartrending story of the love between the beautiful Shakuntala and King Dushyanta; ‘The Little Clay Cart’, where the evil designs of the king and his family are foiled by the righteous Charudatta and Vasantasena; ‘The Story of an Anklet’, about Kannagi, who wreaks a terrible revenge for the wrong done to her; ‘Manimekalai’, the extraordinary account of a woman’s search for her true calling; ‘The Last Trial of Sita’, in which the playwright gives a whole new ending to the Ramayana, and ‘The Broken Thigh’, about the final, desperate combat between Duryodhana and Bheema on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Accompanied by descriptions of the authors’ lives and the time when the stories were written, these lively retellings are an ideal introduction to some of the best-known stories from the Indian classics.

Author : Kālidāsa
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814788157
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Recognition of Shakœntala written by Kālidāsa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known Sanskrit drama presented here in a bilingual translation.

Author : DOLAT H. DOONGAJI AND
Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8189999486
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakuntala written by DOLAT H. DOONGAJI AND and published by Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1971-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakuntala was the daughter of a nymph and a sage who abandoned her in the woods. Sage Kanva brought her up. King Dushyanta on a visit to the hermitage was struck with Shakuntala's beauty and they got married in a non-traditional ceremony. The king eventually returned back, leaving with Shakuntala a ring that carried his seal. After a when she came to live with the king, he did not remember anything about her and asked for proof of their being together. Shakuntala had lost the ring and could not produce any proof. So rejected by the king, she was carried away by her mother. The ring was one day found by a fisherman and produced before the king, this brought back his memory of Shakuntala and he longed to meet her. One day, on the way back from a great battle victory Dushyanta visited the sage Maricha's hermitage where Shakuntala and her son Bharata were living. Many were the signs by which the king recognized Bharata as his son. He asked Shakuntala for forgiveness and took both of them with him. Later, Bharata became an illustrious king and it is said that India's name "Bhaarata" is formed to mean 'the land of Bharata'. This story from Mahabharata provided the plot for a renowned play by the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa of the 5th century. The play was translated into English by William Jones at the end of the 18th century. It won praise from the German poet Goethe then and has been widely translated and read worldwide.

Author : Adithi Rao
Publisher : Scholastic India Pvt Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788184776973
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakuntala and Other Timeless Tales from Ancient India written by Adithi Rao and published by Scholastic India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lively stories in this book capture the magic and wonder of six great works from the golden ages of Sanskrit and Tamil Literature: Kalidasa's Abhijnanashakuntalam, the great saga of forgotten love between Shakuntala and the king Dushyanta. Shudraka's Mrichchakatika, the epic romance between the impoverished Charudatta and the courtesan Vasantasena, played out against a backdrop of political intrigue and mystery. Bhavabhuti's Uttararamacharita, the compelling retelling of the story of Rama and Sita. Illanko Adigal's Silappadikaram, the tale of the epic revenge executed by the strong and beautiful Kannagi. Sattanar's Manimekalai, the quest of an extraordinary woman to master the truths that define our existence. Bhasa's Urubhangam, the stirring tale from the Mahabharata that culminates in the final battle between Duryodhana and Bheema at Kurukshetra.This is the ideal introduction to some of the best-known stories from the Indian classics with their eternal themes of love and betrayal, battles and feasts, valiant heroes, beautiful heroines, treacherous villains and loyal friends.

Author : Ashok Sinha
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462879349
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakuntala written by Ashok Sinha and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an English translation of the Sanskrit classic Play Abhijnan Shakuntalam by the great poet and Playwright Mahakavi Kalidas, written around 220 CE. The play is about the strange fate of Shakuntala, a simple, beautiful ascetic lady. King Dushyant meets her and falls in love with her. They get married. After some time, king Dushyant returns to his capital, assuring her that he would soon send for her. However, due to the curse by a wrathful sage, Durvasa, the king completely forgets about her. Humiliated, Shakuntala goes off into the forest to live by herself. In due course, she gives birth to a boy, whom she names Bharat. Fortuitously, following certain turns of events, Durvasas curse is removed, and the king remembers all about Shakuntala. He tries to find her, but of no avail. One day, he accidentally meets the young boy, Bharat, in the forest. The family is thus united and happily returns to the capital. Bharat grows up to become a great emperor. The original name of India is Bhaarat after his name. Rama, worshipped by Hindus all over the world as an Incarnation of God, was a descendent (some 6000-7000 years ago) of emperor Bharat.

Author : Kālidāsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalidasa Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works written by Kālidāsa and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190267119
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ring of Truth and Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry written by Wendy Doniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Ring of Truth', Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature.

Author : Sunil Khilnani
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 9385990950
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incarnations written by Sunil Khilnani and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kalidasa Translations of Shakuntala, and Other Works written by Kalidasa and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1914-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Namita Gokhale
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143062271
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakuntala written by Namita Gokhale and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel.