कुमारसम्भवम् (महाकवि कालिदास - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी अनुवाद)

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emotional side of Pârvatî's heart The honesty and sincerity
with which Pârvatî practises penance have been disclosed with
remarkable success, and the dialogue between an ascetic and
Pârvatî is one of the best pieces of its kind in Sanskrit poetry
Turning to the other incidents of the poem, no other poet would
have been able to do so much justice to the imaginary attack
of Kâma on Shiva, the victory of the latter upon the former
and the pitiable lamentation of the bereaved Rati All this
combined with the inherent qualities of Kâlidâsa's pen has
achieved for the poem a high place in the line of the Sanskrit
Mahâkâvyas, and one feels fully in concordance with Dr
Ryder in thinking that " there are passages in the birth of the
War-God of a piercing beauty which the world can never
let die "
Kâlidâsa has generally taken the theme of his poems from
the ancient stock of stories, the Meghadûtam
(2) The Source and the Mâlavikâgnimitram being the only
of the Poem exceptions Some of his works deal with
historical stories while others with mythological legends The
Kumârasambhavam belongs to the latter class as the story of
Shiva and Pârvatî is only a mythological one It is very
ancient and is mentioned in a number of Purânas, but none
of them has done so much justice to it as the Shiva Purâna.
Kâlidâsa also seems to have borrowed the plot for his poem
from this Purâna, but after borrowing the bare outlines, he,
with the help of his poetical genius and rich fancy has given
the story a new aspect.
As has been remarked the chief incident of the story is the
birth of Kumâra, an issue of Shiva and
(3) The Title Pârvatî, so the poem has been named as
"Kumârasambhavam" This name can be derived as कुमारस्य
(कार्तिकेयस्य सम्भवः ( उत्पत्ति ) कुमारसम्भवः, स एवभेद्ोपचारात् कुमारसंभवं
महाकाव्यम् । e, the birth of Kumâra, the same denotes the