[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) › 7.31a5 # The Recognition of Śakuntalā 7.31a5 Abhijñānaśākuntala 7.31a5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.31a5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.31a5) śakuntalā (svagatam) diṣṭyākāraṇapratyādeśī nāryaputraḥ / na punaḥ śaptam ātmānaṃ smarāmi / athavā prāpto mayā sa hi śāpo virahaśūnyahṛdayayā na viditaḥ / ataḥ sakhībhyāṃ saṃdiṣṭāsmi bhartur aṅgulīyakaṃ darśayitavyam iti / > Shakuntala (to herself). Thank heaven! My husband did not reject me of his own accord. He really did not remember me. I suppose I did not hear the curse in my absent-minded state, for my friends warned me most earnestly to show my husband the ring. > — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, Shakuntala (in Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works) - [Previous: 7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.31) - [Next: 7.32b1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.32b1) - [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.7.163) — Arthur W. Ryder 1912, English - [Sacontalá; or, the Fatal Ring](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-jones.7.p146) — Sir William Jones 1789, English - [Abhijñāna-Śakuntalam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala~en-goswami.0.3.7.p38) — Bidhubhusan Goswami 1916, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Arthadyotanikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala!raghavabhatta.10.5.236) — Rāghavabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.31a5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.sakuntala.7.31a5) · Pramāṇa