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Who translated Kalidasa's Abhigyana Shakuntalam into English?
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Abhijnana Shakuntalam was translated into English by Sir William Jones.
Jones, the judge and orientalist who founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, published his English translation, Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring, in 1789. It made Kalidasa famous in Europe and impressed Goethe.
Charles Wilkins translated the Bhagavad Gita (1785), Warren Hastings was the Governor-General who sponsored such work, and Jonathan Duncan founded the Sanskrit College at Benares.
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