Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.296

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Then from her lips comes a splendid song of praise for family happiness (a rendering of part of which will be given later), and she ends with a lament that her mother had already forsaken her as a child, and now her husband was repudiating her, and she was in the world with no kinsfolk. But the king upbraids her as a bad woman, sneers at her declaration that she is Viçvāmitra’s daughter, and jeeringly says that her evil-living mother, Menakā, has picked her up, the evil-living daughter, somewhere else. “All whereof thou speakest is unknown to me; I know thee not; go thy ways, wherever thou choosest.” Majestically Çakuntalā speaks: