Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories by Romila Thapar

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories

Romila Thapar

296 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging reflective slow-paced
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The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection. In these two texts, Sakuntala undergoes a cri...

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