Kalidasa: Translations of Shakuntala & Other Works

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King Dushyanta.

Bharata, nicknamed All-tamer, his son.

Madhavya, a clown, his companion.

His charioteer.

Raivataka, a door-keeper.

Bhadrasena, a general.

Karabhaka, a servant.

Parvatayana, a chamberlain.

Somarata, a chaplain.

Kanva, hermit-father.

Sharngarava, Sharadvata, Harita, his pupils.

Durvasas, an irascible sage.

The chief of police.

Suchaka, Januka, Policemen.

A fisherman.

Shakuntala, foster-child of Kanva.

Anusuya, Priyamvada, her friends.

Gautami, hermit-mother.

Kashyapa, father of the gods.

Aditi, mother of the gods.

Matali, charioteer of heaven’s king.

Galava, a Pupil in heaven.

Mishrakeshi, a heavenly nymph.

Stage-director and actress (in the prologue), hermits and hermit-women, two court poets, palace attendants, invisible fairies.

The first four acts pass in Kanva’s forest hermitage; acts five and six in the king’s palace; act seven on a heavenly mountain. The time is perhaps seven years.

PROLOGUEBENEDICTION UPON THE AUDIENCE

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