Dushyanta : descendant of Puru [see Pururavas]; he married Shakuntalā; it is after their son Bharata that the country is named Bhārata. Dushyanta is hero of Kālidāsa’s play Abhijñāna Śākuntalam.
... imagined yourself limited by a particular body for the purposes of the play, just as an actor imagines himself to be Dushyanta or Rama or Ravana; and often the actor loses himself in the part and really feels himself to be what he is playing, forgetting that he is really not Dushyanta or Rama, but that Devadatta who plays a hundred parts besides. Still when he shakes off this illusion & remembers that ...
... imagined yourself limited to a particular body for the purposes of the play, just as an actor imagines himself to be Dushyanta, Rama or Ravana. The actor has lost himself in the play and for a moment thinks that he is what he is acting; he has forgotten that he is really not Dushyanta or Rama, but Devadatta who has played & will yet play a hundred parts besides. When he shakes Page 209 off ...
... the love which Dushyanta felt for Shakuntala at the first sight was only passion, a result of mere physical, at most vital, attraction. But when he meets her again after separation in the Marichi Ashram his love has become purified and there was no element of passion in it. Sri Aurobindo : That is not at all true; all that one can put from one's own imagination. But Dushyanta is not shown ...
... poetry so much less intimately and thoroughly known to us than the great figures of drama. Kalidasa was both an epic poet and a dramatist, yet Sheva and Parvatie are merely grand paintings while Dushyanta, Shacountala, Sharngarava, Page 170 Priyumvada & Anasuya, Pururavus and Urvasie and Chitraleqha, Dharinie and Iravatie and Agnimitra are living beings who are our friends, whom we know ...
... Cowsambie a pawn, for its crown is not his only, but belongs to "many other souls": Their names are endless. Bharath first Who ruled the Aryan earth that bears his name, And great Dushyanta and Pururavus' Famed warlike son and all their peerless line, Arjoona and Parikshit and his sons Whom God descended to enthrone, and all Who shall come after us, my heirs ...
... that wholly take. But this belongs to many other souls. VASAVADUTTA To whom? VUTHSA Their names are endless. Bharuth first, Who ruled the Aryan earth that bears his name, And great Dushyanta and Pururavus' Famed warlike son and all their peerless line, Urjoona and Parikshith and his sons Whom God descended to enthrone, and all Who shall come after us, my heirs and thine Who choosest ...
... have The whole uncouth barbarian with Cashmere In the bad bargain. COOMOOD We will not let him have you. We'll find a mantra that shall call Urjoon From Eden's groves to wed you; great Dushyanta Shall leave Shacoontala for these wide eyes Which you have stolen from the antelope To gaze men's hearts out of their bodies with, You lovely sorceress; or we'll have Udaian To ravish you into ...
... the actual kings. Thus treated, the list would run as below with 47 for its start: 47. Sahadeva 70. Vitatha 48. Jarāsandha 71. Bhārata 49. Sambhava 72. Dushyanta 50. Urja 73. Tarhsu 51. Sudhanvan 74. Matināra 52. Satyahita 75. Richeyu 53. Pushpavant 76. Raudrāsva 54. Rishabha 77. Aharhyāti ...
... Nandalal Bose — a depiction of the archery test conducted by Dronacharya for his students , the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Page 277 Who does not remember king Dushyanta removing his bow with respect at the entrance of the peaceful hermitage of the great Rishi Kanva? The practice of archery was a stupendous task. The Indian bow, as even the Greeks testify, ...
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