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# The Recognition of Śakuntalā 5.16-17

Abhijñānaśākuntala 5.16-17

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.5.16)

nāpekṣito gurujano 'nayā tvayā pṛṣṭo na bandhujanaḥ /  
ekaikasminn eva carite bhaṇāmi kim ekaikam //  
śaku (ātmagatam) kiṃ nu khalv āryaputro bhaṇati /  
rā kim idam upanyastam /  
śaku (ātmagatam) pāvakaḥ khalu vacanopanyāsaḥ /

> Did she with father speak or mother?  
> Did you engage her friends in speech?  
> Your faith was plighted each to other;  
> Let each be faithful now to each.  
> — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)

> Shakuntala. What will my husband say?  
> — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)

> King (listening with anxious suspicion). What is this insinuation?  
> — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)

### [5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.5.17)

satīm api jñātikulaikasaṃśrayām  
jano 'nyathā bhartṛmatīṃ viśaṅkate /  
ataḥ samīpe pariṇetur iṣyate /  
priyāpriyā vā pramadā svabandhubhiḥ //  
rā kim atrabhavatī mayā pariṇītapūrvā /

## Translations (4)

- [Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-ryder.5.81) — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, English
- [Śakoontalá, or the Lost Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-monier-williams.5.p131) — Monier Monier-Williams 1855, English
- [Sacontalá; or, the Fatal Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-jones.5.p65) — Sir William Jones 1789, English
- [Abhijñāna-Śakuntalam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-goswami.0.3.5.p8) — Bidhubhusan Goswami 1916, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Arthadyotanikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala!raghavabhatta.10.5.163) — Rāghavabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit

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