(1) Abhijnanasakuntalam is aSanskrit play by the ancientIndian poet Kalidasa, dramatizingthe story of Shakuntalatold in the epic Mahabharata.It is considered to be the bestof Kalidasa’s works. Its date isuncertain. It was the first Indiandrama to be translatedinto a Western language, by SirWilliam Jones in 1789.