[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) › 4.5 # The Birth of Kumāra 4.5 Kumārasaṃbhava 4.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.5) upamānamabhūdvilāsināṃ karaṇaṃ yattava kāntimattayā | tadidaṃ gatamīdṛśīṃ daśāṃ na vidīrye kaṭhināḥ khalu striyaḥ || > "Oh thou wast beautiful—fond lovers sware > Their own bright darlings were like Káma, fair; > Sure woman's heart is stony—can it be > That I still live while this is all of thee? > Where art thou, Káma? could my dearest leave > His own fond Reti here alone to grieve? > So must the sad forsaken Lotus die > When her bright river leaves his channel dry. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.4) - [Next: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.6) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.4.p3) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.5) · Pramāṇa