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!

"From that time onward, O Rāghava, he became renowned as Anaṅga ('the bodiless');

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

"Burned by that terrible eye (of Śiva), O joy of the Raghu line, all the limbs fell from the body of that foolish one.

" 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.

Indeed, Kāma is its name;

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.

"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?

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

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.