The Birth Of Kumara

Informationen zum Autor Kali dasa Klappentext Edited and translated by David Smith (Lancaster University) 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 i Zusammenfassung A bi-lingual Sanskrit/English classic rarely available.

Product details

• Authors: Kali Dasa, Dasa Kali, Kali dasa, David Kali Dasa, Kalidasa, David Kalidasa/ Smith
• Assisted by: David Smith (Editor), David Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780814740088
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4008-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies