Origin of the Young God: Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava
Heifetz, Hank
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Book ID : 4012
ISBN-10 : 81-208-0754-5 / 8120807545
ISBN-13 : 978-81-208-0754-9 / 9788120807549
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1990
Edition :
Language : English
Translation with an annotation and an introduction.
xii, 178p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical sanskrit. It is the love story of Siva and Parvati the God and the Goddess, who are viewed as lovers and as cosmic principles. The poem of their love is a paradigm of the inevitable union between male and female played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity. Beginning with a description of Himalaya and the birth of his daughter Parvati the poem proceeds in perfectly pitched sensuous detail through a presentation of the broader setting for the divine relationship (a warrior child is needed to lead the army of the gods), the uneasy course of events between Siva and Parvati.
