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[[File:Priyamvada brings a tray of cosmetics to adorn Shakuntala.jpg|thumb|''Priyamvada brings a tray of cosmetics to adorn Shakuntalaa''. [[Nalagarh]], 1840–1850. [[National Museum, New Delhi]].]]

'''Shakuntalaa''' ([[Sanskrit]]: ''Śakuntalāa'',) is the wife of [[Dushyanta]] and the mother of [[Bharata (Mahabharata)|Emperor Bharata]]. Her story is told in the ''[[Adi Parva]]'', the first of eighteen parts of the ancient Indian epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'', and dramatized by many writers, the most famous adaptation being [[Kālidāsa|Kalidasa]]'s play ''[[Shakuntala (play)|Abhijñānaśākuntala]]'' (''The Sign of Shakuntala'').<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dollsofindia.com/library/shakuntala/|title=Shakuntala - the Epitome of Beauty, Patience and Virtue|website=Dolls of India|date=16 September 2011|access-date=2016-03-08}}</ref>

There are two different stories of Shakuntala's life. The first version is the one described in ''[[Mahabharata]]'', one of the two major Hindu epics traditionally attributed to the sage [[Vyasa]]. This story had been adapted as the play by the 4th-5th4th–5th century CE poet Kalidasa.

File:Shakuntala plaque from Bhita.jpg|The Bhita plaque.

File: Kulu vase drawing detail.jpg|The [[Kulu Vase]].

''[[Sakuntala (opera)|Sakuntala]]'' is an incomplete opera by [[Franz Schubert]], which was started in October 1820.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Badura-Skoda |first1=For Royalties and Contract Only Eva |title=Schubert Studies: Problems of Style and Chronology |date=23 September 1982 |publisher=CUP Archive |isbn=978-0-521-22606-6 |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jM88AAAAIAAJ |access-date=25 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> In 1884 the first Opera of the 21 -year -old Austrian composer [[Felix Weingartner]] had its debut performance in Weimar and was supported by Franz Liszt to bring it to stage. Italian [[Franco Alfano]] composed an [[opera]] named ''[[La leggenda di Sakùntala]]'' (''The legend of Shakuntala'') in its first version ([[1921 in music#Opera|1921]]) <ref>{{cite book |last1=Grout |first1=Donald J. |last2=Williams |first2=Hermine Weigel |title=A Short History of Opera |date=18 July 2003 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-50772-1 |page=605 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2xXZhKagLO4C |access-date=25 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> and simply ''[[Sakùntala]]'' in its second version ([[1952 in music#Opera|1952]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bagnoli |first1=Giorgio |title=The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera |date=1993 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-87042-3 |page=215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUJ0bvo6rQIC |language=en}}</ref>

[[Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar]] created a novel in [[Sadhu bhasha]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]].{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} It was among the first translations from [[Bengali language|Bengali]].{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} [[Abanindranath Tagore]] later wrote in the [[Chalit Bhasa]] (which is a simpler literary variation of [[Bengali language|Bengali]]) mainly for children and preteens.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}