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;
This verse is for the purpose of a counter-injunction (*pratiprasava*) for the Skanda vow, regarding the Ṣaṣṭhī conjoined with a Pañcamī of twelve *nāḍīs*, which is generally prohibited for all divine rites.
In the Skanda vow, however, since it is stated that only the one conjoined with the preceding day should be taken, there is no defilement, and so it should be performed even when conjoined with a Pañcamī of twelve *nāḍīs*.
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.