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# The Recognition of Śakuntalā 7.22

Abhijñānaśākuntala 7.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.22)

smṛtibhinnamohatamaso diṣṭyā pramukhe sthitāsi me sumukhi /  
uparāgānte śaśinaḥ samupagatā rohiṇī yogam //

> Black madness flies;  
> Comes memory;  
> Before my eyes  
> My love I see. Eclipse flees far;  
> Light follows soon;  
> The loving star  
> Draws to the moon.  
> — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)

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## Translations (2)

- [Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-ryder.7.116) — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, English
- [Abhijñāna-Śakuntalam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-goswami.0.3.7.p28) — Bidhubhusan Goswami 1916, English

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