Menaka and Shakuntala - 03

Oleograph of 'Menaka and Shakuntala' by Raja Ravi Varma from the 1900s. Shakuntala's story is told in the epic poem Mahabharata. In this image, Ravi Varma depicts how Shakuntala, caught up in reverie of her husband King Dushyanta, failed to greet Rishi Durvasa, who cursed her that the person she was thinking of would forget her. King Dushyanta indeed failed to recognise her when she went to his palace, and deeply disappointed, Shakuntala takes refuge in her mother Menaka's arms as she is spirited away to the heavens.