Kāma

Those gods who stand in the western quarter, named Virājaḥ — their arrows are Kāma.

That god whom they call the all-devourer, whom they call Kāma, whom they call the giver and the receiver — he the wise, the mighty, the encompassing, the undeceivable:

go, O Kāma!

"His body destroyed, utterly burned by that great-souled one, Kāma was made bodiless there by the lord of the gods in his wrath.

"The foolish one (Kāma) dared to assail Sthāṇu (Śiva), who was here performing austerity, collected in discipline, even as the lord of the gods was departing with his wedding train together with the host of Maruts;

"Kandarpa — he who is called Kāma (Love) by the wise — once existed here in embodied form.

" This *tithi*, for the worship of Kāma, should be taken when conjoined with the morning.

Trayodaśī is of Anaṅga (Kāma), and Caturdaśī is said to be of Śiva.

"O you of perfect beauty, like the god Kāma come to Yama's realm, What is the reason you were able to destroy Yama's realm and make it a celestial court?

When he saw the perfect youthfulness of the soul, like the god of love, It was different, incomparable, not like a sinful soul suffering in Yama's realm.

Indeed, Kāma is its name;

I gazed upon the holy Kāma, and because he was gazed upon with my poison-sight, the body of the holy Kāmadeva was shattered, incinerated, and turned to ash.

When the man sets out on a journey, she should make him swear that he will return quickly, and in his absence should put aside her vows of worshipping the Deity, and should wear no ornaments except those that are lucky.

When the man does return home she should worship the God Kama (*i.