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Stunned Shakuntla closed her eyes. She could not bear the words of his beloved and tightly closed her ears with both the hands. She felt the earth below her feet is slipping fast and she is falling deep inside the vortex of emptiness. With tears in her eyes, she raised her head to have final glimpse of Dushyant, but he turned away his face. Shakuntla embraced her son in the bosoms and kissed him.