to the verses of the Rig Veda and Atharva Veda, although he is better known from the stories of the ''Puranas''. The Atharva Veda regards Kamadeva as a powerful god, the wielder of the creative power of the universe, also describing him to have been "born at first, him neither the gods nor the fathers ever equaled".

In the Puranas, Kamadeva is generally mentioned as a manasaputra (mind-born son) of