[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) › 3.73 # The Birth of Kumāra 3.73 Kumārasaṃbhava 3.73 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.73) tīvrābhiṣaṅgaprabhaveṇa vṛttimmohena saṃstambhayatendriyāṇām | ajñātabhartṛvyasanā muhūrtaṃ kṛtopakāreva ratirbabhūva || > Then was the Hermit-God to madness lashed, > Then from his eye red flames of fury flashed— > So changed the beauty of that glorious brow. > Scarce could the gaze support its terror now. > Hark! heavenly voices sighing through the air: > Be calm, great Siva, be calm and spare!— > Alas! that angry eye's resistless flashes > Have scorched the gentle King of Love to ashes! > But Reti saw not, for she swooned away, > Senseless and breathless on the earth she lay; > Sleep while thou mayst, unconscious Lady, sleep! > Soon wilt thou rise to sigh and wake to weep. > E'en as the red bolt rives the leafy bough > Did Siva blast the hinderer of his vow. > Then fled with all his train to some lone place > Far, far from Woman and her witching face. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 3.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.72) - [Next: 3.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.74) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.3.p12) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.73) · Pramāṇa