Thus afflicted, the deities, sages, and ascetics, wrought up with fear, sought the protection of that god of gods Maheswara creator and destroyer of the cosmos, unborn, of an unmanifest form, the stay of all creatures, worthy of being adored, and the . supreme preceptors (of all). And coming to that enemy of Kama* and foc of Tripura the three-eyed (Deity), the gods with their voices faltering through fear, represented with joined hands. *The Hindu Cupid. Mahadeva had burnt to ashes Kama, when he had the fool-hardiness to disturb the contemplation of the former. By the way, Kalidasa has cared his faery fabric, entitled Kumāra Sambhava, on the basis of this legend.
तैर्वध्यमाना देवाश्च ऋषयश्च तपोधनाः। भयार्ताः शरणं जग्मुर्देवदेवं महेश्वरम्॥ जगत्सृष्ट्यन्तकर्तारमजमव्यक्तरूपिणम्। आधारं सर्वलोकानामाराध्यं परमं गुरुम्॥ ते समेत्य तु कामारिं त्रिपुरारं त्रिलोचनम्। ऊचुः प्राञ्जलयो देवा भयगद्गदभाषिणः॥