[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) › 2.15 # The Birth of Kumāra 2.15 Kumārasaṃbhava 2.15 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.15) tvameva havyaṃ hotā ca, bhojyaṃ bhoktā ca śāśvataḥ | vedyaṃ ca veditā cāsi, dhyātā dhyeyaṃ ca yatparam || > While impious Tárak in resistless might > Was troubling Heaven and Earth with wild affright, > To Brahma's high abode, by Indra led, > The mournful Deities for refuge fled; > As when the Day-God's loving beams awake > The Lotus slumbering on the silver lake. > So Brahma deigned his glorious face to show, > And poured sweet comfort on their looks of woe. > Then nearer came the suppliant Gods to pay > Honour to him whose face turns every way: > They bowed them low before the Lord of Speech, > And sought with truthful words his heart to reach:— > "Glory to Thee! before the world was made. > One single form thy Majesty displayed— > Next Thou, to body forth the mystic Three, > Didst fill three Persons—Glory, Lord, to Thee! > Unborn and unbegotten! from thy hand > The fruitful seed rained down; at thy command > From that small germ o'er quickening waters flung > All things that move, and all that move not, sprung; > Before thy triple form they wondering bow, > Maker, preserver, and destroyer, Thou! > Thou, when a longing urged thee to create, > Thy single form in twain didst separate; > The Sire, the Mother that made all things be > By their first union were but parts of Thee; > From them the life that fills this earthly frame, > And fruitful Nature, self-renewing, came. > Thou countest not thy time by mortals' light. > With Thee there is but one vast day and night; > When Brahma slumbers fainting Nature dies, > When Brahma wakens all again arise. > Creator of the world—Thou uncreate! > Endless! all things from Thee their end await; > Before the world wast Thou!—each Lord shall fall > Before Thee, mightiest, highest, Lord of all; > Thy self-taught soul thine own deep spirit knows, > Made by thyself thy mighty form arose; > Into the same, when all things have their end. > Shall thy great self, absorbed in Thee, descend; > Lord, who may hope thy essence to declare? > Firm, yet as subtile as the yielding air— > Fixt, all-pervading; ponderous, yet light. > Patent to all, yet hidden from the sight. > Thine are the sacred hymns which mortals raise, > Commencing ever with the word of praise. > With three-toned chant to grace the sacrifice, > And lead the worshipper to Paradise; > They hail Thee Nature labouring to free > The immortal Soul from low humanity— > Hail Thee the stranger Spirit, unimpressed, > Gazing on Nature from thy lofty rest. > Father of fathers, God of gods art thou, > Creator, highest, hearer of the vow! > Thou art the sacrifice, and Thou the priest, > Thou, he that eateth—Thou, the holy feast; > Thou art the knowledge which by Thee is taught, > The mighty thinker, and the highest thought!" > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.14) - [Next: 2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.16) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.2.p1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.15) · Pramāṇa