2006-10-17 20:00:04 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In Hindu mythology Shakuntala was considered to be the mother of Emperor Bharata and the wife of Dushyanta who was the founder of the Paurav vansha (Paurav Dynasty). Shakuntala was born of Vishvamitra and Menaka. Rishi Kanva found her in the forest surrounded and protected by birds (Shakunton in Sanskrit), so she was named Shakuntala.
Once, while out on a hunt with his army, Dushyanta passed through a forest, similar to Nandankanan, full of bilv, ark, khadir, kapith, dahv etc. trees. The forest undulated with interspered rocky hillocks and extended over several yojans and there was no trace of any man. It was full of wildlife.
Dushyanta, along with his powerful army, happened to pass through extensive desert after which he reached a good forest. This forest was full of ashramas (hermitages) and there were fruit-bearing and shade-bearing trees but no xerophytic trees. Here Dushyanta came across the ashrama of Rishi Kanva, the son of Kashyapa Rishi. It was surrounded by the Malini River.
Menaka had come at the behest of the King of the Gods Indra to distract the great sage Vishvamitra from his deep meditations. She succeeded in distracting him, and sired a child by him. Vishwamitra, 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, Menaka left Shakuntala, just after birth, on the banks of the Malini River on the peaks of the Himalayas. As stated above, Rishi Kanva found the newly born girl in the forest surrounded and protected by birds and thus named her Shakuntala. According to a source Titwala, a small town near Kalyan in Maharashtra, is considered to be the site of the hermitage where Shakuntala was born.
2006-10-17 20:23:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Hindu mythology Shakuntala was considered to be the mother of Emperor Bharata and the wife of Dushyanta who was the founder of the Paurav vansha (Paurav Dynasty). Shakuntala was born of Vishvamitra and Menaka. Rishi Kanva found her in the forest surrounded and protected by birds (Shakunton in Sanskrit), so she was named Shakuntala.
Menaka mther of Shakuntala, left Shakuntala, just after birth, on the banks of the Malini River on the peaks of the Himalayas. As stated above, Rishi Kanva found the newly born girl in the forest surrounded and protected by birds and thus named her Shakuntala. According to a source Titwala, a small town near Kalyan in Maharashtra, is considered to be the site of the hermitage where Shakuntala was born. So Kanva Maharishi brought up Shakuntala
2006-10-17 20:47:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I understand it Vishmamitra and Menaka were the parents of Shakuntala but I did not know that Vishmamitra raised her.
I also do not know how she got her name.
2006-10-17 20:16:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She was named by her parents, Vishmamitra and Menaka. She was brought up by Vishmamitra.
2006-10-17 20:06:23 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
she picked random letters from scabble tiles, and she was brought up by parsley , rosemary and sage
2006-10-17 20:02:36 · answer #5 · answered by brinlarrr 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think u should go to Yahoo India.
2006-10-17 20:02:15 · answer #6 · answered by observer 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think you already know the answers to all your questions and you are just trying to make us look into it......
2006-10-17 20:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by Huda_Alee 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to ask Kalidas.
2006-10-17 20:06:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
from her parents?
2006-10-17 20:04:47 · answer #9 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋