[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) › 4.8 # The Birth of Kumāra 4.8 Kumārasaṃbhava 4.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.8) smarasi smara mekhalāguṇairuta gotraskhaliteṣu bandhanam | cyutakeśaradūṣitekṣaṇānyavataṃsotpalatāḍanāni vā || > Káma, dear Káma, call again to mind > How thou wast ever gentle, I was kind— > Let not my prayer, thy Reti's prayer, be vain, > Come as of old, and bless these eyes again! > Wilt thou not hear me?—think of those sweet hours > When I would bind thee with my zone of flowers. > Those soft gay fetters o'er thee fondly wreathing, > Thine only punishment when gently breathing > In tones of love thy heedless sigh betrayed > The name, dear traitor! of some rival maid; > Then would I pluck a flowret from my tress > And beat thee till I forced thee to confess, > While in my play the falling leaves would cover > The eyes—the bright eyes—of my captive lover. > And then those words that made me, oh, so blest— > "Dear love, thy home is in my faithful breast!" > Alas, sweet words, too blissful to be true, > Or how couldst thou have died, nor Reti perish too? > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.7) - [Next: 4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.9) - [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.p4) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.4.8) · Pramāṇa