Shakuntala Indian Mural Painting

In Hinduism Shakuntala is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata. ... more

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$500

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60.000 x 86.000 cm.

Title

Shakuntala Indian Mural Painting

Artist

Asp Arts

Medium

Painting - Acrylic On Canvas

Description

In Hinduism Shakuntala is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata.

Shakuntalā was born of the sage Vishwamitra and the Apsara Menaka. Menakā had come at the behest of the King of the Heaven, Indra, to distract the sage Vishwāmitra from his deep meditations. She succeeded, and bore a child by him. Vishwāmitra, angered by the loss of the virtue gained through his many hard years of strict ascetism, distanced himself from the child and mother to return to his work. Realizing that she could not leave the child with him, and having to return to the heavenly realms, Menakā left the newborn Shakuntalā in the forest. It was here that the new born child was found by Kanva Rishi surrounded by Shakunta birds . He thus named her Shakuntalā. Kanva Rishi took the child to his ashram, on the banks of the Mālini River which rises in the Shivālik hills of Himālayas and lies about 10 km from the town of Kotdwāra in the state of Uttarākhand, India. This is corroborated by Kālidāsa in his play Abhijñānaśākuntalam in which he has described the ashram of the Kanva Rishi on the banks of river Mālini.

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March 25th, 2015