To get one of these objects, a man pretends to have been bitten by a snake while picking flowers and later uses that object to help a character escape prison. While speaking to a clown, a character recalls telling a woman to “Count every day one letter of my name” after giving her one of these objects. That woman is remitted from her “debt” of watering two trees after a man shows her friends one of these objects cursed by an (*) “irascible” sage. In the prologue of a play, the Stage Director introduces one of these objects “of recognition.” One of these objects is lost when the title character of a play crosses a river to meet her husband and is later found in the maw of a fish. For 10 points, in The Recognition of Shakuntala, the title character is cursed to be forgotten by her husband until she shows him what kind of jewelry? ■END■
ANSWER: a signet ring (the play in the first line is Kālidāsa’s Mālavikā and Agnimitra)
<Kevin Wang, World Literature>
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