Note 207 — Chapter X

Mr. George Forster translated this play into German, from the English edition of Sir William Jones, and added to it notes which display talents and learning. It was published at Mentz in 1791. Sakontala, or more properly Shakuntala, was a daughter of Vishvamitra, and married to king Dushpanda. She had a son named Bharada, or Bharata, who may be ranked among the most celebrated of the Indian kings. More information on this subject may be found in the book Mahàbharada, which contains a circumstantial history of the heroine Shakuntala. If credit is to be given to this Mahabharada, and the poem Yudhishtira, the Indians, about the year 1600 before the birth of Christ, were engaged in a bloody war with the Gebers, or Gaurs; the consequence of which was, that the Gebers, under the command of one of their kings, fled to Persia, where they remained till they were expelled by the Mahometans. A.