Shakuntala

A ninety-six page colour comic book titled 'SHAKUNTALA'. 'AMAR CHITRA KATHA DIGEST Vol. 530'. Published in 1992 by H. G. Mirchandani, for India Book House Pvt. Ltd., edited by Anant Pai, retold by Dolat H. Doongaji and A. K. Lavangia, and with art done by K. P. Shankar. The work is about the story of Shakuntala being left in the forest by her mother, the nymph, Menaka, (her father is the sage, Vishwamitra) as a baby. Shakuntala is adopted by the sage, Kanva, and she gets married to King Dushyanta in the forest. King Dushyanta returns to his kingdom to send for his wife Shakuntala later. In the King's absence, the sage, Durvasa is displeased with Shakuntala for forgetting to treat a visitor because of her preoccupation with her thoughts of her husband and he curses her that she of whom she thinks will forget her until he sees an object that he has given her. Shakuntala becomes pregnant and she goes on a journey to see her husband. On the way, she looses the ring her husband gave her in the river. When she reaches her husband, he denies that he knows her. After, Shakuntala is taken away by a nymph. Later, a fisherman is brought by guards where he restores the king's ring that he gave to his wife so that he remembers her. The king goes off to fight a war between the gods and the demons. After the war, the king is dropped off in a forest where he meets his son, Bharat, and is reunited with his wife, Shakuntala.