Skanda
deity figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Skanda fast · Skanda vow · Skanda-ṣaṣṭhī
in the texts
Vīramitrodaya
War-god son of Śiva, invoked hyperbolically as becoming six-faced from eagerness to praise the king.
In the festival of singing the fame of King Juhārasiṃha, Brahmā, exceedingly eager, became four-faced;
, applies to the Skanda fast.
Skanda-ṣaṣṭhī, however, from the *Brahmavaivarta* verse:
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Skanda, invoked to impart virile power and beget a bull-like heroic son.
Mount [her], O Skanda;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
A war-god invoked for Rāma's protection in Kausalyā's benediction.
and may the divine lord Skanda, Soma, and Bṛhaspati protect you.