[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) › 1.56 # The Birth of Kumāra 1.56 Kumārasaṃbhava 1.56 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.56) tuṣārasaṅghātaśilāḥ khurāgraiḥ samullikhandarpakalaḥ kakudmān | dṛṣṭaḥ kathañcidgavayairvivignairasoḍhasiṃhadhvanirunnanāda || > Since the sad moment when his gentle bride > In the full glory of her beauty died, > The mournful Siva in the holy grove > Had dwelt in solitude, and known not love: > High on that hill where musky breezes throw > Their balmy odours o'er eternal snow, > Where Heavenly Minstrels pour their notes divine > And rippling Ganga laves the mountain pine. > Clad in a coat of skin all rudely wrought > He lived for prayer and solitary thought; > The faithful band that served the Hermit's will > Lay in the hollows of the rocky hill. > Where from the clefts the dark bitumen flowed; > Tinted with mineral dyes their bodies glowed. > Their garb, rude mantles of the birch-tree's rind, > With bright red garlands was their hair entwined; > The holy Bull before his master's feet > Shook the hard-frozen earth with echoing feet. > And as he heard the lion's roaring swell > In distant thunder from the rocky dell. > In angry pride he raised his voice of fear > And from the mountain drove the startled deer. > Bright fire—a shape the God would sometimes wear > Who takes eight various forms—was glowing there; > Then the great Deity who gives the prize > Of penance, prayer, and holy exercise, > As though to earn the meed he grants to man, > Himself the penance and the pain began. > Now to that holy Lord, to whom is given > Honour and glory by the Gods in Heaven, > The worship of a gift Himálaya paid. > And towards his dwelling sent the lovely maid; > Her task, attended by her youthful train. > To woo his widowed heart to love again. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 1.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.55) - [Next: 1.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.57) - [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.p8) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.1.56) · Pramāṇa