This chapter is about the birth and life of Sakuntala who was conceived deceitfully between a fairy from the heavens and a mooni named Vishwamitra. When Sakuntala was born her mother left her in the forest and she was raised by birds and eventually given to the mooni Kanva and his sister who adopted Sakuntala. Sakuntala was raised as a hermits daughter and she learned to talk to the animals and grow the flowers that grew by their home. One day the Maharaja Dashmanta came strolling by her garden while hunting for deer and saw Sakuntala working in her garden, he approached her and they fell in love. He spent time with her at her home and then married her and impregnated her. Then not too soon after he left to go back to rule his kingdom.
While dreaming of her new husband, Sakuntala was so distracted that she ignored a hungry hermit and he cursed her that the person she was dreaming of would forget her. So Dashmanta forgot her, he never sent an escort to bring her to his palace. Then eight months later as she is nearing her son's due date she and some of her family travel to Dashmanta's palace and confront him and he again says he does not know her or remember her.
Four years go by and by now Dashmanta remembers his wife but cannot find her. Then one day he finds his son in a clearing playing with a tiger cub and follows him back to his mother Sakuntala. They reunite and become one of those happily ever after couples.
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