[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) › 7.24 # The Recognition of Śakuntalā 7.24 Abhijñānaśākuntala 7.24 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.24) sutanu hṛdayāt pratyādeśavyalīkam apaitu te kim api manasaḥ saṃmoho me tadā balavān abhūt / prabalatamasām evaṃ prāyāḥ śubheṣu hi vṛttayaḥ srajam api śirasy andhaḥ kṣiptāṃ dhunoty ahiśaṅkayā // śakuntalā uttiṣṭhatv āryaputraḥ / nūnaṃ me sucaritapratibandhakaṃ purākṛtaṃ teṣu divaseṣu pariṇāmābhimukham āsīd yena sānukrośo 'py āryaputro mayi virasaḥ saṃvṛttaḥ / (rājottiṣṭhati) śakuntalā atha katham āryaputreṇa smṛto duḥkhabhāgy ayaṃ janaḥ / > Dear, graceful wife, forget; > Let the sin vanish; > Strangely did madness strive > Reason to banish. Thus blindness works in men, > Love's joy to shake; > Spurning a garland, lest > It prove a snake. (He falls at her feet.) > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) > Shakuntala. Rise, my dear husband. Surely, it was some old sin of mine that broke my happiness--though it has turned again to happiness. Otherwise, how could you, dear, have acted so? You are so kind. (The king rises.) But what brought back the memory of your suffering wife? > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) - [Previous: 7.24b1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.24b1) - [Next: 7.25b1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.25b1) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7) ## Translations (3) - [Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-ryder.7.123) — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, English - [Sacontalá; or, the Fatal Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-jones.7.p109) — Sir William Jones 1789, English - [Abhijñāna-Śakuntalam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-goswami.0.3.7.p29) — Bidhubhusan Goswami 1916, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Arthadyotanikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala!raghavabhatta.10.5.230) — Rāghavabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.24) · Pramāṇa