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    Abhijnanasakuntalam - Short Answer Type Questions and Answers (2 Marks)

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    The document contains short answer questions and responses about Abhijnanasakuntalam, a play by Kalidasa. It summarizes key plot points like Durvasa cursing Sakuntala for forgetting to greet him, causing her to forget her husband Duhsanta. It also provides context about characters like Sakuntala being the daughter of Menaka and Vishwamitra and being found as a baby by Kanva in his hermitage after being protected by a bird. The answers concisely describe important elements of the play's story and characters in 2-3 sentences each.

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    Abhijnanasakuntalam - Short Answer Type Questions and Answers (2 Marks)

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    Abhijnanasakuntalam - Short Answer Type Questions

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    1. What does the image of ‘tusker rampage’ (Act - I) suggest?

    Answer: The tusker rampage in Act I suggests the onset of uncontrolled passion in King
    Duhsanta. His subduing the tusker, similarly, is indicative of his attempt and ability to control
    the passion that occupied his heart on viewing Sakuntala. This may also suggest that Duhsanta
    himself is the ‘tusker’, who through his very intrusion has disturbed the peace of the hermitage,
    ushering in a string of events that are unlikely to its inherent tranquility.

    2. What is ‘benediction’?

    Answer: Benediction is the formulaic beginning of the play as found in Classical Sanskrit
    plays. This was included to invoke the blessing of the patron god praying for the successful
    completion of the play, the concept being that the deity would keep a watchful eye on the evil
    powers that would attempt to otherwise stall the play in its progress. Formally, the benediction
    was outside the corpus of the play, and many Sanskrit playwrights had had the actors penning
    them. But Kalidasa was an exception. He wrote the benediction himself, most of them devoted
    to the deity of Ashtamurti Shiva, his ishta, and Abhijnanasakuntalam has one of the most
    beautiful benedictions in the entire corpus of Sanskrit literature.

    3. Who found the finger ring and where?

    Answer: The ring is found in the stomach of a fish and is found by two fishermen Januka and
    Suchaka while fishing. They found it to bear the sing of the king and sold it to a dhivara for
    money, which was how the police got a whiff of it and arrested the washer-man for stealing a
    royal ring.

    4. Who was Gautami?

    Answer: Gautami was the ashrama mata. She was the wife of Kulapati rishi Kanva, a kind and
    benevolent mother figure whose magnanimity encompassed and graced the entire ashram
    amidst the woods in love and compassion. She makes only a brief appearance in the play, ass
    Sakuntala prepares and grooms herself as she plans to leave for Duhsanta’s court to restore his
    money which was reportedly clouded.

    5. What are names of the two male attendants who accompany Sakuntala to Duhsanta’s
    court?

    Answer: Saradvata and Sarngarava are the two male attendants who accompany Sakuntala to
    Duhsanta’s court.

    6. Why did Durvasa curse Sakuntala?

    Answer: The curse of Durvasa occurs in the fourth act of the play, Abhijnanasakuntalam.
    Sakuntala, lost the remembrance of Duhsanta, her husband through a spontaneous Gandharva
    marriage who has departed from his kingdom, forgets to greet the sage Durvasa with the honour
    and property due of a guest of his high standing, when he arrives at Kanva’s hermitage. This
    enrages Durvasa, who accuses Sakuntala of negligence of duties or dharma of hospitality.

    7. What is Kanva’s advice to Sakuntala when she moves towards Duhsana’s court?

    Answer: While going to Duhsanta’s court, Kanva adcises Sakuntala to be respectful to the
    elders and serve them, to be a friend to the other wives of Duhsanta, and not to go against
    husband even if he mistreats her. He further advises her to be generous to her husband’s
    relatives, and never to be proud of her fortune and position.

    8. Who were the parents of Sakuntala?

    Answer: The parents of Sakuntala were Menaka, an apsara or dancer of the cosmic orders and
    the sage Vishwamitra.

    9. In what was Sakuntala, the baby girl, found and who found her?

    Answer: Sakuntala was found by the sage Kanva in his hermitage. She was protected from the
    animals and the elements of nature by a bird sakunta, a vulture presumably. That accounts for
    her being named ‘sakuntala’ –as one who was protected by the sakunta.

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