Smara
deity figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the Clattering One · the Pāñcāla · the Scorcher · the holy god Smara
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Personified power of longing/remembrance invoked to seize a man's mind.
You are Smara;
This ball, this crunching ball — Smara, the Pāñcāla, the Scorcher, the Clattering One — burn the heart of that dear one whom I desire.
Slokantara
The god of love/desire, whose arrows are said to strike a woman entering the pramadā stage
a pramadā is one struck by the arrows of Smara.
Furthermore, a woman who has been struck by the arrows of the holy god Smara, who has just recovered from the exhaustion of the weapon's sting, she is called a *pramadā*.