It is also the named of Kama's reincarnation.
Pradyumna (प्रद्युम्न) - he who conquers all. Kushumeshara (कुसुमशर) he whose arrows are flowers. Ananga (अनंग) - he who is without a body. Madana (मदन) - one who intoxicates with love. Manmatha (मन्मथ) - one who agitates mind. Other names prominently used in reference to Kamadeva are: Kama is also a name used for Agni ( Atharva Veda 6.36.3). Kamadeva is a name of Vishnu in Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata Purana (SB 5.18.15), and also Krishna as well as Shiva. The name is used in Rig Veda ( RV 9, 113. Kama ( IAST: kāma) means "desire" or "longing", especially as in sensual or sexual love. Deva means heavenly or divine, and refers to a deity in Hinduism. The name Kama-deva ( IAST: kāma-deva) can be translated as 'god of love'. Mentioned as a manasputra (mind-born son) of the creator god Brahma in the Puranas, Kamadeva's most popular legend is his story of incineration by Shiva's third eye while the latter was meditating, later embodied on earth as the eldest son of Krishna and his chief consort Rukmini, Pradyumna. The Atharva Veda regards Kamadeva as 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 equalled". He is depicted as a handsome young man decked with ornaments and flowers, armed with a bow of sugarcane and shooting arrows of flowers. Kama ( Sanskrit: कामदेव, IAST: Kāmadeva), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire and pleasure, often portrayed alongside his consort and female counterpart, Rati. 
A gouache painting of Kamadeva, circa 1820Ītharvaveda, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Harivamsha, Puranas
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