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KAMA, or KAMADEVA

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 645 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
KAMA, or KAMADEVA , in Hindu mythology, the god of love. He is variously stated to have been the child of Brahma or Dharma (virtue). In the Rig Veda, Kama (desire) is described as the first
movement
  that arose in the One after it had come into
life
  through the
power
  of fervour or abstraction. In the Atharva-Veda Kama does not mean sexual desire, but rather the yearning after the good of all created things. Later Kama is simply the Hindu
Cupid
 . While attempting to lure Siva to sin, he was destroyed by a fiery glance of the goddess' third eye. Thus in Hindu poetry Kama is known as Ananga, the " bodiless god." Kama's wife Kati (voluptuousness) mourned him so greatly that Siva relented, and he was reborn as the child of Krishna and Rukmini. The babe was called Pradyumna (
Cupid
 ). He is represented armed with a bow of
sugar
 -cane; it is strung with bees, and its five arrows are tipped with
flowers
  which overcome the five senses. A
fish
  adorns his flag, and he rides a
parrot
  or
sparrow
 , emblematic of lubricity.


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