[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) › 3.75 # The Birth of Kumāra 3.75 Kumārasaṃbhava 3.75 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.75) śailātmajāpi piturucchiraso'bhilāṣaṃ vyarthaṃ samarthya lalitaṃ vapurātmanaśca | sakhyoḥ samakṣamiti cādhikajātalajjā śūnyā jagāma bhavanābhimukhī kathaṃ cit || > Sad was Himálaya's daughter,—grief and shame > O'er the young spirit of the Maiden came;— > Grief—for she loved, and all her love was vain, > Shame—she was spurned before her youthful train; > She turned away, with fear and woe oppressed, > To hide her sorrow on her father's breast; > Then, in the fond arms of her pitying sire, > Closed her sad eyes for fear of Siva's ire— > Still in his grasp the weary maiden lay, > While he sped swiftly on his homeward way. > Thus have I seen the elephant stoop to drink, > And lift the lilies from the fountain's brink— > Thus, when he rears his mighty head on high. > Across his tusks I've seen those lilies lie. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 3.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.74) - [Next: 3.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.76) - [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.p13) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.3.75) · Pramāṇa