[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) › 7.36 # The Birth of Kumāra 7.36 Kumārasaṃbhava 7.36 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7.36) ityadbhutaikaprabhavaḥ prabhāvātprasiddhanepathyavidhervidhātā | ātmānamāsannagaṇopanīte khaḍge niṣaktapratimaṃ dadarśa || > Well-pleased the God in all his pride arrayed > Saw his bright image mirrored in the blade > Of the huge sword they brought; then calmly leant > On Nandi's arm, and toward his Bull he went, > Whose broad back covered with a tiger's hide, > Was steep to climb as Mount Kailása's side, > Yet the dread monster humbly shrank fur fear > And bowed in reverence as his Lord drew near. > The Matrons followed him, a saintly throng, > Their ear-rings waving as they dashed along— > Sweet faces, with such glories round them shed > As made the air one lovely Lotus bed. > On flew those bright Ones—Káli came behind, > The skulls that decked her rattling in the wdnd: > Like the dark rack that scuds across the sky, > With herald Lightning and the Crane's shrill cry. > — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7) - [Previous: 7.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7.35) - [Next: 7.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7.37) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7) ## Translations (1) - [The Birth of the War-God (cantos 1–7)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava~en-griffith.7.p7) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1853, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kumarasambhava.7.36) · Pramāṇa