act5
shakuntala enters dushyan't court, along with rishikumar and gowthami. dushyant is not able to recognise her. even after seeing her face he is unable to recognise. dushyant forgets ghandharva vivah he did with her. rishi kumar talks about the incidents which happened when the king was there, but all attempts fail. shakuntala wants to show the ring he gave her. but here again fate has played the trick,the ring was not there, she has lost it while paying homage to river shachi .dushyant says he has not cheated anybody until now . he is innocent.
dushyant tries to recollect the women among the hermitage, who is very tender covering the face rishikumar unable to take her back to kanva's ashram left her behind and proceeded. shakuntala is in a pathetic state, leaving the court of dushyant, not knowing where to go.
raj purohit reminds king of the prediction that he will be blessed with a male child first. . so he advises king to give shelter to this women. if the child is male and has the definitions of a chakravarthi , then we can call her inside the palace until then she was allowed to be in the kingdom. king agrees and , shakuntala follows purohit in a sad state
desperate shakuntala cries for help. a group ladies came from the sky and took shakuntala on the bank of the river apsarathirth. narrating this incidence, purihit makes an attempt to remind king. .though dushyant is not able to recollect shakuntala , but subconscious mind accepts her as wife.
act 6
a fisherman was caught when he was selling a ring in which royal symbol was inscribed. he was brought to the court. dushyant saw the ring and immediately recognised it and recollected everything. he honored the honest fisherman with a prize money. afflicted with guilt and he sets out to find shakuntala. . he tells vidhoshak , his friend madhavya , that he has recalled shakuntala.
vasanth ruthu is set in . mango trees are full of white and red flowers. the koyal gets intoxicated seeing these flowers and starts singing. so sanumathi apsara is sent by menaka to observe dushyant . she talked to dushyant and he felt sorry for the shameful act of humiliating and throwing her out of the court he narrates the pathetic look shakuntala gave with a tearful eyes before leaving the court with the purohit is like a poisonous spear logged in to his body.
. sanumathi observes that vasanth ruthu is setting in but no celebration. she is curious to know the reason.
.dushyant tells her - this ring slipped off the tender and beautiful fingers of shakuntala. he believed in this abstract thing and rejected shakuntala .how can i enjoy vasant ruthu. he starts brings her in canvas. here kalidasa speaks about the viyog ras
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indira was attacked by demons . he knew that king dushyant can only kill them but his state of mind was totally different. his charioteer mathali, becomes invisible and hits madhvya to take him out of a temporary phycological state and aggravate him., so that dushyant will help indira his friend in destroying kalanemi demon's. indira sends pushpaka vimana to dushyant he travels to indira loka to help indira to destroy the demons.
here kalidasa writes- like shifting the position of the firewood , the flame ignites , angry snake spread its hood and hisses, sometimes for humans it is necessary to induce anger.
act 7
on his way back , after destroying the demons, ,from the sky dushyant saw baghavan marichi's ashram( Indira's father) on the hill of gandhamadhan. he decided to take his blessings. marichi is explaining his wife about the duties of a devoted and virtuous wife. dhakshayani is also there at that time.
there dushyant finds a 5 years old rishikumar sarvadhaman who is playing with a lion cub.he was amazed. . suddenly the aparajitha medicine tied on his hands fell down.it was tied by marichi soon after his birth to protect him . only his parents or he himself can pick the medicine .if unknown person picks it the medicine will become snake and kill that person. but now when dushyant picks it up nothing happens. dushyant makes him sit on his lap .shakuntala comes there in untidy and casual state. dushyant recognised her and they are reunited .bharat is introduced to dushyant. she felt fate has reunited them.
all three of them went to seek marichi's blessings .he explains to dushyant that-menaka brought shakuntala to dhakshayani here after the separation . through meditation he knew what all happened . dushyant apologises to marichi. kalidasa writes- like a dirty mirror cannot reflect our face. marichi says durvasa's curse veiled dushyant from recognising shakuntala . when he looks at the ring he will recollect everything. so he tells shakuntala not to blame her husband .
marichi explained -- shakuntala that her husband is equivalent to indira, her son sarvadhamon is comparable to indira's son jayant, - you become like indrani .kashyap marishi and his wife athithi also blessed shakuntala . marichi tells to dushyant that he is blessed with - shakuntala a devoted and virtuous wife, a very disciplined son - sarvadhaman- belief ,money and destiny at one place.-dushyant is spellbound with the powers of marichi- and told him - first flower comes then the fruit- first dark clouds comes and then rain starts--there is reason behind every work,but here before seeking his blessings , he is reunited with his family
marichi describes about the child -.in the hermitage he is aggressively controlling the wild animals so he is given the name of -- sarvadhaman. but in future he will be named as BHARAT . he will be a great conqueror of the land and will rule the seven ocean ,he will cross the seven islands in pushpaka vimana, he will take good care of the people.
athithi says -since menaka is also there, kanva maharishi should be informed about this news that shakuntala is free of durvasa's curse .and dushyant has accepted her.
dushyant says he can draw the curtain with a bharat vakya.
let god shiva bless him no reincarnation , king always be ready to serve his people , learned be honoured .
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