Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s5.2

Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s5.2

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c11.s5.2

He completed the translation of Kālidāsa’s play *Abhijñānaśākuntala* on 17 August 1788; and in 1789 his edition of *Abhijñānaśākuntala* (*Sacontala or The Fatal Ring: An Indian Drama*) with an English translation was published. The publication heralded the dawn of a new era termed as the “Śakuntalā era” by a French writer, Raymond Schwab in his *Oriental Rennaissance*. It created a furore all over the world and had to be reprinted in five impressions immediately. It is with reference to Jone’s *Sacontala* that Herder wrote to one of his friends:

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Abhijñānaśākuntala — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit