[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) › 2.29 # The Birth of Kumāra 2.29 Kumārasaṃbhava 2.29 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.29) tato mandāniloddhūtakamalākaraśobhinā | guruṃ netrasahasreṇa nodayāmāsa vāsavaḥ || > Then Indra turned his thousand glorious eyes. > Glancing like lilies when the soft wind sighs. > And in the Gods' behalf, their mighty Chief > Urged the Most Eloquent to tell their grief. > Then rose the Heavenly Teacher, by whose side > Dim seemed the glories of the Thousand-eyed, > And with his hands outspread, to Brahma spake. > Couched on his own dear flower, the daughter of the lake:— > "O mighty Being! surely thou dost know > The unceasing fury of our ruthless foe; > For thou dost see the secret thoughts that lie > Deep in the heart, yet open to thine eye; > The vengeful Tárak, in resistless might, > Like some dire Comet, gleaming wild affright, > O'er all the Worlds an evil influence sheds, > And, in thy favour strong, destruction spreads. > All bow before him;—on his palace wall > The Sun's first ray and parting splendour fall; > Ne'er could he waken with a lovelier glance > His own dear Lotus from her nightly trance; > For him, proud Fiend, the Moon no waning knows, > But with unminished full-orbed lustre glows. > He would not brook its crescent glory set > Amid the blaze of Siva's coronet. > How fair his garden, where the obedient breeze > Dares steal no blossom from the slumbering trees! > The wild wind checks his blustering pinions there. > And gently whispering, fans the balmy air; > While through the inverted year the Seasons pour, > To win the Demon's grace, their flowery store. > For him, the River-god beneath the stream, > Marks the young pearl increase its silver gleam. > Until, its beauty and its growth complete, > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.28) - [Next: 2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.30) - [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.p3.p1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.2.29) · Pramāṇa