Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . KAMADEVA. Muir, O. S. T., v. 402. 214 The Puraxic Deities. gods ; according to another, he is the god of sexual love, likethe Eros of the Greeks, and Cupid of the Latins. In the latteraspect he is thus addressed : May Kama, having well directedthe arrow, which is winged with pain, barbed with longing, andhas desire for its shaft, pierce thee in the heart. And it is inthis character that he appears in the Puranas. Kama is known in Hindu Mythology as the victim of Sivasanger. A demon named Taraka, having greatly distressed the. SIVA SLAVING KAMADEVA. ids, it
Hindu mythology, Vedic and Purânic . KAMADEVA. Muir, O. S. T., v. 402. 214 The Puraxic Deities. gods ; according to another, he is the god of sexual love, likethe Eros of the Greeks, and Cupid of the Latins. In the latteraspect he is thus addressed : May Kama, having well directedthe arrow, which is winged with pain, barbed with longing, andhas desire for its shaft, pierce thee in the heart. And it is inthis character that he appears in the Puranas. Kama is known in Hindu Mythology as the victim of Sivasanger. A demon named Taraka, having greatly distressed the. SIVA SLAVING KAMADEVA. ids, it was said that only a son of Siva could deliver them ;but in consequence of his intense grief at the loss of his wifeSati, Siva had become insensible to love. The gods thereforeinstigated Kama to wound him with his arrows, and at last hisefforts proved successful, just as Parvati (Sati in a new form)was near, who at once captivated the stricken deity. Angrywith Kama for his presumption, he caused a flame to issue fromhis third eye, which consumed to ashes the god who had Kamadeva. 215 interrupted his devotions. In the Vamana Purana* is a lengthyaccount of the effect of Kamas arrows on Siva. The god thuswounded could find no rest. He threw himself in the Kalindiriver, but the waters were dried up and changed into blackness ;and ever since its dark stream, though holy, has flown throughthe forest like the string that binds a maidens hair. And ashe wandered about from place to place, the wives of the saintsin the forest of Daruvanam forsook their homes and f
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