skanda

…laces him close to, without quite merging him into, the great war-god Skanda; in the ritual of the nine, Skanda stands as Mangala's presiding deity, kin rather than double.

The Skanda Purana , in its Kāśī Khaṇḍa , tells its own version, folded into the geography of the holy city, where the whole point of the story is how Bhairava comes to rule Kashi.

The Skanda Purana tells it closely, with Ganesha shaped from the substance Parvati scrubbed from her body.

In the Sanskrit scriptures of the north he is Kartikeya or Skanda, the fierce general of the gods, born to kill a demon no one else could touch.

…nd Chola sculptors gave this its own icon, Somaskanda , "with Uma and Skanda": god and goddess seated together with the infant between them, cast in bronze and carried through the streets as a state emblem.

The Śiva Purāṇa tells this in its Śatarudra Saṃhitā, and the Skanda , Matsya , and Kūrma Purāṇas carry versions.

…ersity, says so in Hindi and in plain words: the Saura, Ganapatya and Skanda agamas are called secondary for one reason only, the extreme scarcity of literature directly connected with them, because in the cour…

They cast whole families of gods this way: Shiva and Parvati, the child Skanda, the boy-saint Sambandar, the poet-saints of the Tamil canon, Rama and his companions.