Brewer's: Kumara

[youthful]. The Hindu war-god, the same as Kârttikeya (q.v.). One of the most celebrated Hindu poems is the legendary history of this god. R. T. H. Griffith has translated seven cantos of it into English verse.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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