[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Poetry (mahākāvya, lyric, messenger poems, stotra, Prakrit kāvya)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya) › [Court epics (sargabandha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya) › [Śiva, Pārvatī, Skanda and Devī epics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva) › [The Birth of Kumāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava) › 1.32 # The Birth of Kumāra 1.32 Kumārasaṃbhava 1.32 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.32) unmīlitaṃ tūlikayeva citraṃ sūryāṃśubhirbhinnamivāravindam | babhūva tasyaścaturastraśobhi vapurvibhaktaṃ navayauvanena || > That scorns the wine-cup's help to fire the heart, > The bow of Love without his flowery dart; > There was a glory beaming from her face, > With love's own light, and every youthful grace: > Ne'er pictured lily more divinely fair > Unclosed her beauty to the morning air. > Bright as a Lotus, springing where she trod, > Her glowing feet shed radiance o'er the sod: > That arching neck, the step, the glance aside. > The proud swans taught her as they stemmed the tide, > Whilst of the maiden they would fondly learn > Her anclets' pleasant music in return. > When the Almighty Maker first began > The marvellous beauty of that child to plan. > In full fair symmetry each rounded limb > Grew neatly fashioned and approved by Him: > The rest was faultless, for the Artist's care > Formed each young charm most excellently fair. > As if his moulding hand would fain express > The visible type of perfect loveliness. > What thing of beauty may the poet dare > With the smooth wonder of those limbs compare? > The young tree springing by the brooklet's side— > The rounded trunk, the forest-monarch's pride? > O no!—too cold, too chilling cold, the tree,— > This, too unyielding for such rivalry. > Her hidden beauties though no tongue may tell, > Yet Siva's love will aid the fancy well; > No other maid could deem her boasted charms > Worthy the clasp of such a husband's arms. > Between the partings of fair Uma's vest > Came hasty glimpses of a lovely breast: > So closely there the kissing hillocks rose, > Scarce could the Lotus in the vale repose; > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.31) - [Next: 1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.33) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.1.p6.p2) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.32) · Pramāṇa