Sacontala: or, The fatal ring: an Indian drama - Softcover

., Kalidasa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 197986392X ISBN 13: 9781979863926

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Shakuntala, also known as The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala is a Sanskrit play by Kalidasa, dramatizing the story of Shakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata. It is considered to be the best of Kalidasa's works. Sacontalá or The Fatal Ring, Sir William Jones' translation of Kalidasa's play, was first published in Calcutta, followed by European republications in 1790, 1792 and 1796.

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About the Author:

Sir William Jones (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages. He, along with Henry Thomas Colebrooke and Nathaniel Halhed, founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 197986392X
• ISBN 13: 9781979863926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164