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Shakuntala lying in a forest glade, writing a love letter to King Dushyanta on a leaf while her friends and a deer look on, with a verse from Kalidasa, on a ₹1.03 stamp.
Kalidasa’s Shakuntala
India Post issued two stamps on 22 June 1960 for the great Sanskrit poet and dramatist Kalidasa: a 15 naye paise stamp showing the Yaksha of his poem Meghaduta, and this ₹1.03 stamp with a scene from his play Abhijnanashakuntalam. In the hermitage of the sage Kanva, Shakuntala writes a letter of love to King Dushyanta, whom she has met in the forest. Kalidasa, who probably lived in the 4th or 5th century, is held to be the greatest poet of classical Sanskrit. In 1963 this stamp was reissued with its value surcharged to Re. 1.
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