He expressed his instant desire to marry her. Dushyanta, in the course of his hunting expedition, reached out Kanva’s hermitage and in the garden happened to see Sakuntala who was watering plants with her maids and was taken in by her bewitching beauty. The first meeting of Dushyanta and Sakuntala was a lively, 'colorful sequence’ in the play. Kalidasa weaved the play based on the Mahabharata theme. True to the caliber of a great poet, Kalidasa created a colorful sequence about the first meeting of Dushyanta and Sakuntala. The wife of Pandavas, Draupadi was one such example. The kavyas, mainly concerned with of the worldly bhavas, the emotions, or in the more universal form of their essence, rasas, need characters which are drawn with much more attention to subtle details of characterization.”(p.45) Most of the feminine characters in Mahabharata take up to war-like postures when they are challenged for their honor. Rustomji explains the issue between the two Sakuntalas thus: “The oral creation and performance of an epic demand a style which is straightforward. But how can a poetic heart create a warrior-like feminine character that we find in Sakuntala of Mahabharata? Mahabharata is basically the story of war. His great play is based on the theme of Mahabharata. Kalidasa is more a poet than a historian.
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