[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) › 1.36 # The Birth of Kumāra 1.36 Kumārasaṃbhava 1.36 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.36) nāgendrahastāstvaci karkaśatvādekāntaśaityātkadalīviśeṣāḥ | labdhvāpi loke pariṇāhi rūpaṃ jātāstadūrverupamānabāhyāḥ || > 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: 1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.35) - [Next: 1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.37) - [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 ## Commentaries (6) - [Sañjīvinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!mallinatha) — Mallinātha Sūri, Sanskrit - [Vivaraṇa of Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!narayana-pandita) — Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita, Sanskrit - [Kumāratātparya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!caritravardhanagani) — Cāritravardhanagaṇi, Sanskrit - [Śiśuhitaiṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!caritravardhana) — Cāritravardhana, Sanskrit - [Kumārasambhavaṭīkā Saṃjīvanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!sitarama) — Sītārāma, Sanskrit - [Sañjīvanī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava!mallinatha-sanjivani) — Mallinātha, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.adhunika.subhasitaratnabhandagara.6.6.397) — Kāśīnātha Pāṇḍuraṅga Paraba 1886, Sanskrit - [Rasikaranjani-gangadhara-adhvarin (ed. Jaya Shankar Lal Tripathi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasikaranjani-gangadhara-adhvarin*tripathi2016.14.52) — Sanskrit - [Alaṅkārasūtra (Candrakānta Tarkālaṅkāra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.alamkara.alankarasutra-candrakanta-tarkalamkara.7.36-3) — Candrakānta Tarkālaṅkāra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.36) · Pramāṇa