कुमारसम्भवम् (महाकवि कालिदास - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी अनुवाद)

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the spring season and all its objects, animate or inanimate, are
filled with the passion of love. Shiva too for a while seems to
be yielding to it, but very shortly consciousness is awakened in
him. He holds Kâma responsible for the disturbance, and
being angry with him, reduces him to ashes by means of the
fire coming forth from his third eye. Suspecting danger,
Himâlaya takes away his daughter and the plan of the gods
seems to have been frustrated for the time being.
Canto 4.—Kâma's sad end causes great grief to his wife
Ratî who had accompanied him in his adventure. She weeps
bitterly and piteously and decides to breathe her last by
burning herself with the body of her beloved. But an
incorporeal speech pacifies her by giving an assurance that her
separation from Kâma was only temporary and that she would
again be united with him.
Canto 5.—Pârvatî, who had fallen in love with Shiva and
whom she wanted to marry, seeing her object undone by the
demise of Kâma, decides to win over her beloved by means of
severe penance. Her mother dissuades her but she turning a
deaf ear to her and taking permission of her father goes to a
peak of the Himâlaya to practise austerities. She repairs to
the place with her friends and commences her penance with all
seriousness. Taking the vow of asceticism, she puts on the
dress of ascetics, and. not minding the severity of elements,
continues to mortify her body. She becomes renowned as an
ideal ascetic and sages from far and near come to visit her.
One day she is called on by a young ascetic, who was none
but Shiva in disguise. First he pays a befitting tribute to the
pious life of Pârvatî and then asks her the reason of her
penance and knowing it to be to win over Shiva as her
husband, he begins to point out the various defects of Shiva,