Dushyanta [SEP] present in work
king of Hastinapur and ancestor of the Kuru dynasty. Dushyant met his wife Shakuntala while on an excursion from his kingdom at the hermitage of sage Kanva. Dushyanta and Sakuntala had a son named Bharata who went on to become an emperor.
Love for Shakuntala.
The story of Dushyanta's encounter, marriage, separation and reunion with his queen, Shakuntala, has been immortalized in the "Mahabharata" and in "The Recognition of Shakuntala" by the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
Dushyant meets Shakuntala, who is a
Shakuntala Patra-lekhan
Shakuntala Patra-lekhan is an 1876 painting by Raja Ravi Varma. The work depicts Shakuntala laying on grass, writing a letter to her lover Dushyanta. The work had won praise for Ravi Varma when it was presented at the Madras Fine Arts Exhibition of 1876. Later acquired by the Duke of Buckingham, the painting was subsequently used in the English translation of Kalidasa's Shakuntalam. 
See also.
- Raja Ravi Varma
- There Comes Papa
- Nair Lady Adorning Her Hair (Varma