His best known work concerns the love of king Dushyanta for the poor titular maiden.  
Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart was inspired by one of this man's lyrics, and his most famous work provided the idea for the prologue to Goethe's Faust.  His two epic poems are Birth of the War God and Dynasty of Raghu, but his fame resides in his three extant dramas, two of which include Malavi and Agnimitra and Urvasi Won by Valor.  His best known work concerns the love of king Dushyanta for the poor titular maiden.  FTP, name this turn of the 5th-century Indian dramatist of Shakuntala.
Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart was inspired by one of this man's lyrics, and his most famous work provided the idea for the prologue to Goethe's Faust.  
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