He invited her to come to him and that faultless featured beauty too accepted his invitation. They then passed many days in each others' company. Sporting with each other, they passed many years and thought that it was but only a day. That Rishi begot Shakuntala on her. Menaka went to the banks of the river Malini which passed playfully through the beautiful valley of the Himalaya mountains and there she gave birth to a daughter. She then left the child there (on the banks of the river) and went away. Thus having been successful in her mission, she soon returned to Indra. Some vultures, seeing that the child lay in the deep forest abounding in lions and tigers, sat round it to protect it from harm, so that no carnivorous animals might take her life.
न्यमन्त्रयत चाप्येनां सा चाप्यैच्छदनिन्दिता। तौ तत्र सुचिरं कालमुभौ व्यहरतां तदा॥ रममाणौ यथाकामं यथैकदिवसं तथा। जनयामास स मुनिर्मेनकायां शकुन्तलाम्॥ प्रस्थे हिमवतो रम्ये मालिनीमभितो नदीम्। जातमुत्सृज्य तं गर्भ मेनका मालिनीमनु॥ कृतकार्या ततस्तूर्णमगच्छच्छक्रसंसदम्। तं वने विजने गर्भ सिंहव्याघ्रसमाकुले॥ दृष्ट्वा शयानं शकुनाः समन्तात् पर्यवारयन्। नेमां हिंस्युर्वने बालां क्रव्यादा मांसगृद्धिनः॥