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9780814740088 Academic Inspection Copy

The Birth of Kumara

  • ISBN-13: 9780814740088
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Kali dasa, Translated by David Smith
  • Price: AUD $51.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 03/03/2005
  • Format: Hardback (152.00mm X 102.00mm) 360 pages Weight: 260g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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This court epic describes events leading up to the birth of Kumara, the war god who will defeat the demon Taraka. The gods try to use Kama, the Indian Cupid, to make the ascetic god Shiva fall in love with the daughter of the Himalaya mountain. Kama fails, and is burnt to ashes by the angry Shiva. Then Parvati, the daughter of the mountain, herself turns to asceticism to win the husband she longs for. She is successful, and the climax of the poem is the marriage and lovemaking of Shiva and Parvati, parents of the universe.
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