Shakuntala Patra-lekhan is an 1876 painting by Raja Ravi Varma.

The work depicts Shakuntala laying on grass, writing a letter to her lover Dushyanta.

The work had won praise for Ravi Varma when it was presented at the Madras Fine Arts Exhibition of 1876.

[1][2] Later acquired by the Duke of Buckingham, the painting was subsequently used in the English translation of Kalidasa's Shakuntalam.

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