This passage comes from the beginning of Kālidāsa’s most well-known play, the Recognition of Śakuntala (Abhijñānaśakuntalam). The king Duṣyanta is hunting deer, as kings do, in the forest.

This selection is found in Father R. Antoine’s Sanskrit Manual (the whole book is downloadable here; this selection can be found in PDF format here).

For these reading passages, I have created some annotations on this webpage with hypothes.is. (You will only be able to see the annotations with the browser plugin: please feel free to add your own!) For technical reasons, it appears that the annotations are only visible in one of the script versions, so I will add my own annotations to the Dēvanāgarī text.

Useful links. M.R. Kale has produced a good student edition of the Abhijñānaśakuntalam, including an edition (with Rāghavabhaṭṭa’s commentary), a translation, and very useful notes. This is available on Internet Archive.

• Dictionaries (if you do not have them installed on Stardict): Monier Williams; Apte; Vācaspatyam.
• Lookup/analyzer tools: Huet’s Sanskrit Grammarian; also see the morphological analyzer at Saṁsādhanī (University of Hyderabad); Dhaval Patel’s tiṅanta and subanta generators;
• Prakriyāpradarśinī.