Excerpt from Sakuntala: A Sanskrit Drama, in Seven Acts Unfortunately the Pandits omitted to inform Sir W. Jones that the multiplication Of manuscripts Of this play, consequent upon its popularity, had led to a perplexing result, -not, however, unexampled, as has since been proved by what has happened to the Ramayana, - namely, that the numerous manuscripts separated themselves into two classes: the one, embracing all those in Deva nagari writing, which, without being uniform, had still a community Of character; the other, all those in Bengali. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.