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'''''Kumārasaṃbhavam''''' ({{lang-sa|कुमारसम्भवम्}} "The Birth of Kumāra") is an epic poem by [[Kālidāsa]]. It is widely regarded as the finest work of Kālidāsa as well as the greatest [[kāvya]] poem in [[Classical Sanskrit]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Heifetz|first=Hank|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29743892|title=The origin of the young god : Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava|date=January 1, 1990|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=81-208-0754-5|location=Delhi|pages=1|oclc=29743892}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=David|url=https://nyupress.org/9780814740088/the-birth-of-kumara/|title=The birth of Kumāra|date=2005|publisher=New York University Press|isbn=0-8147-4008-1|edition=1st|location=New York|quote=The greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit, by the greatest poet of the language.}}</ref> The style of description of spring set the standard for nature metaphors pervading many centuries of Indian literary tradition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/books/kalidasa-1929-kalidaser-granthabali-v2-v2.html|title=Book Excerptise: Kalidaser granthAbalI, v.2 by Kalidasa and Rajendranath Vidyabhushan (ed.)|work=iitk.ac.in|access-date=17 April 2017}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''Kumārasaṃbhavam'' basically talks about the birth of Kumara ([[Kartikeya|Kārtikeya]]), the son of [[Shiva]] and [[Parvati]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/sanskrit/poetry/kumarasambhavam.html/%3E|title=Kumarasambhavam by Kalidasa - Synopsis & Story|work=ILoveIndia.com|access-date=17 April 2017}}</ref> The period of composition is uncertain, although Kālidāsa is thought to have lived in the 5th century.<br />
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==Contents==<br />
''Kumārasambhava'' literally means "The Birth of Kumāra". This epic of seventeen [[canto]]s entails [[Sringara]] [[Rasa (aesthetics)|''rasa'']], the rasa of love, romance, and eroticism, more than Vira rasa (the rasa of heroism). [[Tārakāsura]], a [[rakshasa]] (demon) was blessed that he could be killed by none other than Shiva's son, however, Shiva had won over [[Kama]], the god of love. [[Parvati]] performed great [[Tapas (Sanskrit)|tapas]] (or spiritual penance) to win the love of Shiva. Consequently, Shiva and Parvati's son Kartikeya was born to restore the glory of [[Indra]], king of the Gods.<br />
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==Adaptations==<br />
''[[Kumara Sambhavam]]'' is a 1969 Indian film adaptation of the poem by [[P. Subramaniam]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vijayakumar |first1=B. |title=Kumarasambhavam - 1969 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/kumarasambhavam-1969/article2763682.ece |website=[[The Hindu]] |language=en-IN |date=1 January 2012}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite book|author=Hank Heifetz|title=The Origin of the Young God: Kālidāsa's Kumārasaṃbhava|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGNTldMJgHoC|date=1 January 1990|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-0754-9}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{wikisourcelang|sa|कुमारसम्भवम्|Kumārasambhava in Sanskrit}}<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101003132004/http://bangla.name/citi/kumara/kum_dev.htm full text of the Kumārasambhava in Devanāgarī script] (first eight sargas)<br />
* [http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/1_sanskr/5_poetry/2_kavya/kakumspu.htm full text of the Kumārasambhava in Roman script] at [[GRETIL]]<br />
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sha/sha16.htm The Birth of the War-God], selected translation by [[Arthur W. Ryder]]<br />
* [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-02251-00003/1 single folio of a Kumārasambhava manuscript] in the [[Cambridge University Library]]<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/birthofwargodpoe00kali] Attempted English translation of text by RTH Griffith<br />
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