Topic Research: Kama and his Work

• Three Possible Stories: Kama's Involvement In
• The love story of Rama and Sita
• Kama-Vilapa-Jakata
• A story about a man being killed who is pining for his former wife, and worrying about her more than the fact that he is about to die
• The Brahman Girl that Married a Tiger
• A girl fell in love with every boy she saw, so a tiger transforms himself into a boy, makes her fall in love with him, and then kidnaps her to cook for him
• The Mouse Who Was To Marry The Sun
• A mouse is transformed into a girl, but when her adoptive father is trying to marry her off she rejects every powerful deity except the mouse king, saying he was one of her kind and asking to be turned back into a mouse
• Style
• Will storytell as Kama looking down on the stories and either intervening in them or detailing how he had already affected the storyline

• Sources
• Inside the Drama-House; Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India by Stuart Blackburn (link here)
• Talks about Rama and Sita and in chapter 4 introduces "kama" as "sexual desire" (food for thought)
• The Jataka, Vol. II by W.H.D. Rouse (link here)
• Story of Kama-Vilapa-Jakata
• Tales of the Sun; or, Folklore of Southern India by Kingscote and Sastri (link here)
• For Brahman Girl and Tiger
• The Panchantra by Bidpai (link here)
• For Mouse

Kama, God of Love (Tanjore Heathen Gods, link)