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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.35.18
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Story of Gaṅgā & Umā: Restrained union and Umā’s curses. The Devas interrupt Śiva & Umā’s union, his released energy transforms the earth through Agni & Vāyu, Umā curses the Devas and the earth
In the sequence: the Devas instruct Agni to enter it together with Vāyu → the energy, pervaded by fire, produces a white mountain and a radiant reed thicket, identified here as the birthplace of Kārttikeya
1.35.18
tad agninā punar vyāptaṃ saṃjātaḥ śvetaparvataḥ
divyaṃ śaravaṇaṃ caiva pāvakādityasaṃnibham
yatra jāto mahātejāḥ kārtikeyo 'gnisaṃbhavaḥ
That seed, again pervaded by Agni, gave rise to a white mountain and a divine thicket of reeds, resembling fire and the sun, where the mighty Kārtikeya, sprung from fire, was born.
Words: tad — that; agninā — by Agni; punar — again; vyāptaṃ — pervaded, filled; saṃjātaḥ — arose, was produced; śvetaparvataḥ — a white mountain; divyaṃ — divine; śaravaṇaṃ — a thicket of reeds; caiva — and; pāvakādityasaṃnibham — resembling fire and the sun; yatra — where; jāto — was born; mahātejāḥ — the mighty, of great energy; kārtikeyo — Kārtikeya; 'gnisaṃbhavaḥ — sprung from fire
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.