Shakuntala or The fatal Ring. An Indian Drama

They are all in verse where the d.iTlogue is elvated; and in prose where itis familiar the men of rank add learning are represented speaking pure SaTislcrit and the women Prakr w1411 is little more than the langsagetf the BE-ails-lac& melted down by adelicate articulation to the softness of Itali pn ; while the low persons of the drama speak the vulgar ditects of the several provinces whic [...] Dushmanta the hero of the piece appears in the chronological tables of the Brahmanas among the children of the moon)sand in thL twentyfirst generation after the flood ; sq that if we can at all rely on the crircinTlogy of taies Hindus he was nearly contempo ry with Obed or Jesse; and Puru his most celebrated ancestor was the fifth in descent *from Budha or Mercury wliLl married they say [...] Water was the first work of the Creator; and Firs receives the obrations ordained by law ; the Sacrifice is performed with solemnity ; *he TtRo Lights of heaven distinguish time ; the subtal Ether which °is the vehicle of sound pervades the universe ; the Earth is the natural parent of all increase ; and by Air all things breathing are animated: may 1 SH A the God of Nature apparent in these ei [...] The weapons'o you kings and warriors are destined for the relief of the oppresed not for.the destruction of the guiltless. [...] In the bloom of the vernal season Kaishika beholding the beauty of the celestial nymph and wafted by the gale of desire— [She stops and looks modest.