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¹ I, 68-75. An English translation of the Śakuntalā episode by *Charles Wilkins* appeared as early as 1794 in A. Dalrymple's Oriental Repertory and separately, (London, 1795); a French translation by *A. Chézy* as an appendix to his edition of Kālidāsa's Śakuntalā drama (Paris, 1830); German translations by *B. Hirzel* (1833), *A. F. Graf von Schack* (1877, Stimmen vom Ganges, pp. 32 ff.), J. J. Meyer, Das Weib im altindischen Epos, pp. 68 ff., and W. Porzig (Indische Erzähler, Vol. 12, Leipzig 1923, pp. 50 ff.). The Kumbhakonam edition has enlarged and spoiled the traditional text still more, S. M. Winternitz, Ind. Ant. 1898, p. 136; J. J. Meyer, l.c., p. 76 note, and *Porzig*, l.c., pp. 128 ff.