KAMA The Hindu god of love, Kama is depicted as an adroit youth, the husband of Rati, god of sensual desire. His sugar-cane bow has bees to make up the strings, and fire arrows tipped by flowers, whose scent announces the sweet, piercing, irresistable attack of love. Kama met his match in Shiva, however, when, commanded by Indra to fire at the Destroyer, in order that Shiva be inflamed with love for Parvati, Kama received the full force of the god's third eye, reducing him to cinders.In a later birth however, the god of love succeeded in piercing Shiva and kindling in him love for the goddess Sati, this attack instigated by Brahma.