Shakuntala said: ( best of the Puru race, if this are the dictates of the scriptures and if I am really my own disposer, know then my terms.
शकुन्तलोवाच यदि धर्मपथस्त्वेष यदि चात्मा प्रभुर्मम। प्रदाने पौरवश्रेष्ठ शृणु मे समयं प्रभो॥