Describe the woman as a victim characters in the Play Abhijanam sukuntalam?
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Shakuntala is the heroine of the play. A beautiful young woman, she is the daughter of a royal sage and the nymph Menaka, and the foster daughter of Kanva. She lives as an ascetic in Kanva’s hermitage, where she tends the sacred trees and loves them like sisters. When King Dusyanta visits the hermitage, she is instantly attracted to him and vice versa. However, she is shy and modestly conceals her feelings in his presence. When Dusyanta is to leave, she becomes gravely ill with longing. Her friends Anasuya and Priyamvada hatch a plan to convey Shakuntala’s feelings to Dusyanta, but he overhears a love poem she’s written, and they’re quickly married by common consent. She soon becomes pregnant with Dusyanta’s son, Sarvadamana. After Dusyanta returns to the capital, Shakuntala is distracted and accidentally incurs the curse of Durvasas, ensuring that when she joins Dusyanta in the capital, he fails to recognize her or to remember their marriage. Though she boldly defends herself against the King’s denial, it’s to no avail, and Shakuntala begs the earth to swallow her whole. Then she’s spirited away by nymphs to the celestial realm, Marica’s hermitage, where she gives birth and raises her son. When Dusyanta discovers her there six years later, she doesn’t recognize him at first, but they’re quickly reconciled and return to his capital together, along with their son.