Kamadeva is the Hindu god of human love or desire. He is the son of the Hindu goddess Sri.

Puranas: In some Kamadeva arises from the mind of the creator god, Brahma: in others he is the son of Sri. Kamadeva is sometimes portrayed as being at the service of Indra: one of his names is “obedient to Indra”.
One of the principal myths regarding Kama is that of his incineration by Shiva. It occurs in its most developed form in the Matsya Purana (verses 227-255) but is also repeated with variants in the Shaiva Purana and other Puranas.
According to the text Shiva Purana, Kamadeva is a son or a creation of Brahma, while according to other sources including the Skanda Purana, Kamadeva is a brother of Prasuti; they are both the children of Shatarupa, a creation of Brahma. Later interpolations consider him the son of Vishnu Kamadeva is wed to Ratī, the daughter of Daksha, created from his sweat.
Iconography: KÄmadeva is represented as a young, handsome winged man with green skin who wields a bow and arrows. His bow is made of sugarcane with a string of honeybees, and his arrows are decorated with five kinds of fragrant flowers.
Etymology: KÄmadeva (Sanskrit in Devanagari: ą¤ą¤¾ą¤®ą¤¦ą„व), (Bengali: ą¦ą¦¾ą¦®ą¦¦ą§ą¦¬), also called MÄra. The name Kama-deva (IAST kÄma-deva) can be translated as ‘god of love’. Deva means heavenly or divine. Kama (IAST kÄma) meaning “desire” or “longing”, especially as in sensual or sexual love.
Other names for him include:
Manmathudu (Telugu: ą°®ą°Øą±ą°®ą°„ą±ą°”ą±)
Atanu (Telugu: ఠతనą±) (one without a body),
Ragavrinta (stalk of passion),
Ananga (incorporeal),
Kandarpa (inflamer even of a god),
Madan “Manmatha” ą¤®ą¤Øą„ą¤®ą¤„
Manmadha (churner of hearts),
Manasija {he who is born of mind}, a contraction of the Sanskrit phrase Sah Manasah jÄta),
Madana (intoxicating),
RatikÄnta (lord of Rati),
PushpavÄn,
Pushpadhanva,
Kusumashara ą¤ą„ą¤øą„ą¤®ą¤¶ą¤° (one with arrow of flowers)
or just KÄma (longing).ā
āKÄmadeva (ą¤ą¤¾ą¤®ą¤¦ą„व) is the name of a Buddha under whom ÅÄkyamuni (or Gautama, āthe historical Buddhaā) acquired merit along the first through nine bhÅ«mis, according to the MahÄvastu. There are in total ten bhÅ«mis representing the ten stages of the Bodhisattvaās path towards enlightenment.
KÄmadeva is but one among the 500 Buddhas enumerated in the MahÄvastu during a conversation between MahÄkÄtyÄyana and MahÄkÄÅyapa, both principle disciples of Gautama Buddha. The MahÄvastu is an important text of the LokottaravÄda school of buddhism, dating from the 2nd century BCE.ā