{"product_id":"the-birth-of-kumara-kali-dasa-9780814740088","title":"The Birth of Kumara","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis court epic describes events leading up to the birth of Kum ra, the war god who will defeat the demon T raka. 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 is the marriage and lovemaking of Shiva and Parvati, parents of the universe.\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest long poem in classical Sanskrit, by the greatest poet of the language, Kali-dasa's \u003cb\u003eThe Birth of Kum ra\u003c\/b\u003e is not exactly a love story but a paradigm of inevitable union between male and female, played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity. In this court-epic, the events are described leading up to but not including the birth of Kum ra, the war god destined to defeat the demon T raka.\u003cbr\u003eCo-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation\u003cbr\u003eFor more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: \/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kali Dasa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814740081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814740088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clay Sanskrit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.50h x 4.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Kali Dasa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988291191039,"sku":"9780814740088","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60b69c47-0a87-4698-a8df-679bb3b775eb.jpg?v=1683293703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-birth-of-kumara-kali-dasa-9780814740088","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}