Valentines Day classic
love stories - Shakuntala and Dushyant. The legend of the exquisitely beautiful
Shakuntala and the mighty king Dushyant is a thrilling love story from the epic
Mahabharata, which the great ancient poet Kalidasa retold in his immortal play
'Abhijnanashakuntalam'.
While on a hunting trip,
King Dushyant of the Puru dynasty meets the hermit-girl Shakuntala. They fall
in love with each other at first sight and, in the absence of her father,
Shakuntala weds t
he king in a ceremony of 'Ghandharva'-a form of marriage by
mutual consent with mother Nature as the witness. When the time comes for
Dushyant to return to his palace, he promises to send an envoy to escort her to
his castle.As a fond remembrance he gives her a signet ring.
One day when hermit
Durvasa stops at her hut for hospitality, Shakuntala, lost in her love
thoughts, fails to hear his calls.The temperamental sage turns back and curses
her: "He whose thoughts have engrossed you would not remember you
anymore." On the plea of her companions, the enraged sage relents and adds
a condition to his curse-statement: "He can only recall you upon producing
some significant souvenir."
Days roll by and nobody
from the palace comes to fetch her. Her father sends her to the royal court for
their reunion, as she was pregnant with Dushyant's child. While travelling,
Shakuntala's signet-ring accidentally drops into the river and gets lost.
When Shakuntala presents
herself before the king, Dushyant, under the spell of the curse, fails to
acknowledge her as his wife. Heart-broken, she pleads to the gods for help. The
spell is broken when a fisherman finds the signet ring in the stomach of a fish
- the same ring that Shakuntala had lost on her way to the court. The king
suffers from an intense feeling of guilt and injustice. Shakuntala forgives
Dushyant and they are reunited happily. She gives birth to a male child. He is
called Bharat, after whom India gets her name.
Shakuntala, was about a haunted room in the LCWU hostel where a Hindu girl is said to have committed suicide after getting pregnant. The documentary was interesting for the students in the audience. The sound direction for this film was particularly impressive. Soch Belagam was about women patients at the Punjab Institute of Mental Health. The disturbing documentary had a deep impact on the audience. The fourth screening was of Parinda, a mime film made for the Aurat Foundation that is about emancipation.
In LCWU a room is locked for all of shakuntla devi. No one is allowed to open this. A shadow of a woman was observed by a private team of ghost hunters, in thier program WOH KIA HAI (Express news)
Readers..., this story is different, this is another story, because it belongs to the Maha Bharat Hinduism History. It is 100% clear that this story completely does not relates with the suicide of Shakuntala. Shakuntala of LCWU had hung herself with the strong branch of the tree, during the British Rule after the year 1800 at the same place where this university LCWU was to be constructed. And one room was to be constructed at the same place where this was TREE exists according to the MAP. The college was built in 1922, by the British Govt. They had constructed this special room after cutting the TREE.
They covered the roots of the old tree by the solid concrete. But the strange thing had happened.... after few days or few weeks the tree grown up again automatically from the same place after rending the concreted floor. This is very interesting supernatural happening. THIS STRANGE HAPPENING IS CONTINUED TILL TODAY....
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