[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Drama (rūpaka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays) › [The Recognition of Śakuntalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala) › 4.4 # The Recognition of Śakuntalā 4.4 Abhijñānaśākuntala 4.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4.4) duṣyantenāhitaṃ tejo dadhānāṃ bhūtaye bhuvaḥ / avehi tanayāṃ brahmann agnigarbhāṃ śamīm iva // ana (priyaṃvadām āśliṣya) sakhi priyaṃ me / kiṃ tv adyaiva śakuntalā nīyata ity utkaṇṭhāsādhāraṇaṃ paritoṣam anubhavāmi / pri sakhi āvāṃ tāvad utkaṇṭhāṃ vinodayiṣyāvaḥ / sā tapasvinī nirvṛtā bhavatu / tena hy etasmiṃś cūtaśākhāvalambite nālikerasamudgaka etan nimittam eva kālāntarakṣamā nikṣiptā mayā kesaramālikā / tad imāṃ hastasaṃnihitāṃ kuru / yāvad aham api tasyai mṛgarocanāṃ tīrthamṛttikāṃ durvākisalayānīti maṅgalasamālambhanāni viracayāmi / > Know, Brahman, that your child, > Like the fire-pregnant tree, > Bears kingly seed that shall be born > For earth's prosperity. > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) > Anusuya (hugging PRIYAMVADA). I am so glad, dear. But my joy is half sorrow when I think that Shakuntala is going to be taken away this very day. > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) > Priyamvada. We must hide our sorrow as best we can. The poor girl must be made happy to-day. > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) > Anusuya. Well, here is a cocoa-nut casket, hanging on a branch of the mango-tree. I put flower-pollen in it for this very purpose. It keeps fresh, you know. Now you wrap it in a lotus-leaf, and I will get yellow pigment and earth from a sacred spot and blades of panic grass for the happy ceremony. (PRIYAMVADA does so. Exit ANUSUYA.) > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) - [Previous: 4.4b1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4.4b1) - [Next: 4.4a5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4.4a5) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4) ## Translations (4) - [Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-ryder.4.55) — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, English - [Śakoontalá, or the Lost Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-monier-williams.4.p34) — Monier Monier-Williams 1855, English - [Sacontalá; or, the Fatal Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-jones.4.p51) — Sir William Jones 1789, English - [Abhijñāna-Śakuntalam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-goswami.0.3.4.p10) — Bidhubhusan Goswami 1916, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.4.4) · Pramāṇa