[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) › 5.2 # The Birth of Kumāra 5.2 Kumārasaṃbhava 5.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5.2) iyeṣa sā kartumavandhyarūpatāṃ samādhimāsthāya tapobhirātmanaḥ | avāpyate vā kathamanyathā dvayaṃ tathāvidhaṃ prema patiśca tādṛśaḥ || > Now woe to Uma, for young Love is slain. > Her Lord hath left her, and her hope is vain; > Woe, woe to Uma! how the Mountain-Maid > Cursed her bright beauty for its feeble aid! > 'Tis Beauty's guerdon which she loves the best, > To bless her lover, and in turn be blest. > Penance must aid her now—or how can she > Win the cold heart of that stern Deity? > Penance, long Penance—for that power alone > Can make such love, so high a Lord, her own. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5.1) - [Next: 5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5.3) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.5.p1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.5.2) · Pramāṇa